“My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.”
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Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.