In "The Teacher as Ethical Subject" Dr. Darryl DeMarzio of the University's Education Department attempt to show how the service ethos in teaching--an ethos which he argues undergirds our cultural and social expectations of the teacher as being morally bound to the welfare and flourishing of the student--might actually support an ethics of teaching insofar as it contributes to the teacher's own project of self-formation.  Through a close reading of Plato's Apology, in which Socrates accounts for his peculiar practice of teaching, Dr. DeMarzio aargues that the frequent allusions Socrates makes to various acts of self-renunciation are intended to convey that the distinctive work of the teacher is a work of the self upon the self.  In this way, the teacher can be viewed as an ethical subject--that is, the subject of their own ethical and existential projects.  Dr. DeMarzio concludes by referencing other Platonic texts in which the idea of self-sacrifice appears in order to conjure up the ancient Greco-Roman notion of sacrifice as a "making sacred"--a notion in stark contrast to our modern idea of "loss of self".