Ms. Frizzle in “The Magic School Bus.” Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society.” Quinta Brunson in “Abbott Elementary.” Mr. Holland in “Mr. Holland’s Opus.” Morgan Freeman in “Lean on Me.”
Fictional teachers earn their place in memory. So do the real ones.
A line from a lecture. A note in the margin of a test — something a teacher said on a Tuesday outlasts the classroom by decades.…