“I
am sorry. I am sorry because I have failed to give you what you have
the right to demand of me as your teacher: sympathy, encouragement,
and humanity… by so doing I have degraded the noblest
calling that man can follow—the care and molding of the young.”
~
Andrew Crocker-Harris' final speech, The Browning Version (1951)
This
is not a post about the school I taught at.
Nor
a post about how I became a teacher.
(There
will be time for those things.)
It
is instead a post about two forces
That
kept me from giving up on being one again.
