As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
I wanted to be a teacher.
I always wanted to be a teacher.
All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.
I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.
My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.
My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.