Everybodys Gotta Learn Sometime - by Norman Brannon
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Throughout my entire life, I have only ever had one true ambition: From the age of five, I told anyone who would listen that I wanted to be a teacher. For several years of my childhood, I was the kid who came home from “real” school only to play “pretend” school—essentially regurgitating everything I learned that day, with the aid of a small chalkboard, to my invisible students. Teaching always felt like an important job to me, and even as a child, I always felt like I should be doing important work. There was never a moment in my childhood, for example, when I dreamed of playing in a band. There was never a moment when I dreamed of being a doctor either, for that matter. If we want to be brutally honest about it, I had no use…
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