What is at the heart of the student-teacher relationship? What are the students' expectations of teachers, and what are teachers' expectations of students? Where and how do students and teachers honor personal and professional boundaries? How does our evolving society impact the quality of these relationships and the future of humanity? As I've pondered these questions, I find myself beginning the inquiry through the ancient wisdom of India.

During a casual search for “seeing ourselves in others,” I came across Robert J. Sternberg’s "Psychology 101½: The unspoken rules for success in academia." While it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, there is so much wisdom here I thought it worth sharing.