What do teachers want their students to become? Many things, no doubt. The Language and Literature course is embedded into the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, and the IB has a set of values, expressed in its Learner Profile, that underscores the kind of traits, it is hoped, that students will develop. The Learner Profile, most would probably agree, is a virtuous model that, entrenched in the lives of individuals,...