But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I divide my time equally between teaching and research.
Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.
But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.
I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.
I always wanted to be a teacher.
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.