What one great teacher means

The enduring legacy of Carroll, Iowa's Mr. Knott. The late teacher empowered generations to lead self-examining lives

Mr. James Knott served as a Carroll High School teacher from 1961 to 1987 and then as dean-provost at the Des Moines Area Community College Carroll campus for nearly 20 years.

In the 1960 movie “Inherit The Wind,” a signature piece of filmmaking that dramatizes the Scopes Monkey Trial, Spencer Tracy’s character, the attorney defending the teaching of evo…