why are we reading these books?

aside from the obvious, its a reading class and its expected that book reading be in the curricula, i think you are having us read these books because we are coming to the end of our undergraduate career's, for the most part, and you want to prepare us for possible problems that we might encounter in our future endouvers by having us read books about teachers who were new to the field and have succeeded amazingly. They have gone up and above the duties and actions of standard teachers and changed the lives of their students because of their outstanding commitment and their ability to think quite far outside the proverbial box to engage students in the classroom in a way that no other students have been so in the past. Furthermore, you are not sitting us down in the traditional method of lecturing, or teaching us first hand. You are having us read, realize, and learn for ourselves in the probabe hope that more of us will retain more information because we are forced to read these helpful books, rather than sit in class where we can ignore teachings, we can day dream, or play on our computers. I rather enjoy the books and the lessons that you have assigned us, and I feel that I am learning a lot from the experience. Thank you