In Praise of Mentors
I found him on Linked In, an unusual but familiar name among the many that the networking website had somehow deduced I should connect to.
Elof Carlson, a blast from my past.
Back in fall 1975, when I was at SUNY Stony Brook, he taught Bio 101, and enlisted senior biology majors as his teaching assistants. Dr. Carlson, author of 14 books and a beloved teacher of many, was the first person to teach me how to teach.
Published on March 24, 2012 21:00