Why I Chose to be a Teacher

While my playmates were busy with dolls, I was reading everything I could lay my hands on. Housework bored me – and still does. One of my favorite games was playing school. And yet I never gave one thought to making the teaching profession my life work. That was due mostly to the times in which I grew up desperately poor times. I could hardly wait until I graduated from high school to start earning money to help my parents. After I had done clerical work for over eight years, I became...