Teaching is thought of as a realitively safe profession.  However, an article in the New York Times reminds us that for some, curiosity and the desire to know more and share that knowledge, education is dangerous.  Reportedly, a French teacher was arrested over a year ago in Iran after taking some pictures of a political demonstration.  While this case represents the extreme, curiosity is often coupled with danger, or at the very least trouble.  But isn't curiosity at the very foundation of education?  If we lack the desire to know more it is essentially a lack of curiosity.  Curiosity encourages us to seek out the unknown and observe the, as yet, unexperienced.  As the French teacher found out, curiosity is not always viewed as an admirable character trait.  While her pictures were simply taken out of a desire to observe and understand another culture, they were viewed as a threat.  I believe that her need to snap those shots is part of what fuels her as an educator.