By now you have all heard about my math teacher Mr. Miller. (Mr. Miller Was My Math Teacher at Ner Israel)
After being featured on WBAL TV and then (almost) every single Jewish blog, you certainly know about Mr. Miller’s longevity and success as a teacher.
Last week, Mr. Miller was featured in an article in the Baltimore Jewish Times. The BJT is a local weekly magazine / newspaper in Baltimore. If you are under 25 continue reading. If you are older, skip to the next paragraph. What’s a magazine? It’s like an old fashioned blog. Or slow motion blogging. Different people have an opportunity to write their opinions and others can respond via letters to the editor or write their own articles. Pretty neat, huh?
The article is a really nice homage to Mr. Miller. They needed to interview a student and somehow my name came up. I agreed to express my thoughts on Mr. Miller for the article.]
You can read the article here: Paul Miller: Still Teaching After 75 Years
And these are my quotes:
Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, one of Mr. Miller’s former students, describes him as a teacher who could always make lessons come to life.
“Mr. Miller had a knack for helping us see the rhyme and reason behind the math,” said Rabbi Fink, who now serves as spiritual leader of the Pacific Jewish Center in Venice, Calif. “Mr. Miller simplified the lessons in a way that I was able to not only understand the math for the first time, [but] I enjoyed it. …
“Even more than learning math, I learned [from Mr. Miller] that when one is passionate about something, one can pass along that passion to others. It can be infectious,” he said. “For that, I am eternally grateful.”
You also get The World According to Mr. Miller after the article. Definitely worth a read.
Read the article. Be inspired.
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