Since I am constantly working on being a positive person, I'm going to focus on my favorite part of the book, the chapter called "Failure." His quote "A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops" immediately stuck out to me, and I agree with it. Any person has many "teachers" throughout their life, and it is true that in the task of teaching someone something, there is no definite end to it.
I also found it interesting that Adams was learning more from the students he taught at Harvard than he was probably teaching them since he was no master in the subject he taught. I have had teachers in the past say that they learned from their students, but I never imagined it as anything substantial compared to what they were teaching. Obviously, there's no way to compare the importance of a lesson taught by a teacher vs. a lesson learned from a teacher's students, as suggested by the previous quote.
This was the most memorable part of the book for me, I can't really add on much to what Adams said since I agree with it, but it evoked thought more so than other parts of the book did.
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