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As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.

I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.