It is to show that over the course of a semester, students who are willing to follow a trained, dedicated teacher develop finely tuned reading skills and link what they read to their lives. Greene’s classroom stories show that their empathy expands as they force themselves to inhabit centuries-old skin, so to speak. The semester recounted in Immeasurable Outcomes shows that teaching and learning Shakespeare and, by extension, the rest of the humanities, is an exploration of oneself as much as it is of the play, painting, novel or poem.
