Quote: When a teacher asked our sophmore class what we each wanted to be when we grew up, I got sent to the principles office for being smart when I said "alive" and the class laughed their a$$es off.
God save us from this kind of teacher!
The other day I was having my eyes checked, and my eye doc whom I've known for 25 years said his dearest wish was to have a beautiful singing voice. I know how he feels, because that's one of my dearest wishes, too. He said that when he was in FOURTH GRADE he tried out for the choir, and the teacher told him he was tone deaf and couldn't sing. So he hasn't sung since! He's 48 years old! That teacher should be slapped. He took those words to heart-- and they might or might not be true-- and has deprived himself of the joy of singing for 40 years.
Another friend was given an F in math by a nun when she was in FIRST GRADE! She grew up hating school-- although she is truly a brilliant and self-taught woman. Dropped out of high school and went to Haight Ashbury in the 60's and lived with a rock band and cooked for them! She would have adored college-- but that nun labeled her and she believed it, and there was no one at her tender age to counter that.
OTOH a wonderful teacher can open up the universe to a person. Although I had very neglectful parents, I was blessed with many caring teachers along the way. If not for some of them, I'd probably be dead or in prison.
Now returning thread to regularly scheduled topic!
