My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.
I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.
My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
My elementary education was at Christ Church infant school and St. Stephen's junior school. At St. Stephen's, I encountered my first real mentor, the headmaster Mr. Broakes. He must have spotted something unusual in me, for he spent lots of time encouraging my interest in mathematics.
My family gave me the best in education.
I was an elementary school teacher.