wish i could say that I had just this one favorite teacher who put me on the path of academic diligence and professional success, but I can’t. I suppose I did become diligent enough in school to eventually become a teacher myself, and I’ve done well enough in my career to keep my mother smiling, even if it took her firstborn 14 years to finish college. But several teachers were responsible for that—for the transfor- mation of a boy (and then later a young man) who didn’t know better into someone who did. To get right to the point, the most valuable thing these teachers taught me was discernment—the fact that I had choices to make, and that it was up to me to make the best one. If there was someone I never forgot from high school, it was my English teacher—Mrs. Agnes Banzon Vea—who fired up my imagination, gave more importance to my words than I myself
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