Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.

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Charles A. Platt (1861–1933) American landscape gardener and architect of the "American Renaissance" movement
Charles Davis Platt New Jersey historian and author
Charles Platt (author) (born 1945) British science-fiction author.