Curious Tales of a Wandering Teacher; What Is Happening to Our Education Today? explores the evolution of education from when the author was an elementary student in the 1950s to a high school and college student in the turbulent 1960s. Sharing entertaining, humorous, and poignant experiences as a student and of her over thirty-year teaching career in more than thirty different courses in all levels, Planck describes how we got here from there in education in the 2000s. Planck wanders through different classes from state to state and even into Nepal teaching. She even shares what it is to teach mountain climbing and the bagpipes.