Classrooms are places where little eurekas happen--and teachers live for them. The sixth-grader struggling with the first week of
algebra has no idea what a nonsensical instruction like "solve for x" means--and then all at once, blink, the light goes on. The
second-grader grasps for the first time why a poem doesn't have to rhyme and then coins a perfect little word picture to prove it.
For H*l*ne Cha-Philippe, a teacher at Morningside Elementary School in Salt Lake City, the moment happened when one of her
first-grade girls said, "I eat the teacher.