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An empty primary school classroom with wooden desks and a long blackboard. The board carries place value sums, a dictation list of Southeast Asian place names, science and social studies words, and an attendance count of twenty pupils.

They Placed Me. A Teachers Day Note.

A subject is a door. Open one for a ten year old and you have not handed over a topic, you have handed over a world, and nobody ever closes it again. A note on Teachers Day, where it came from, and three teachers who placed me somewhere I had not thought to stand.

Sempur Gratus

Teachers Make The World

Time after time, they saw in me what I didn't see. They looked at a scruffy imperfect chap but always looked beyond the imperfections. They pointed me to an eternal spring of hope and promise. That keeps me going.

Teachers

..the teachers who have been getting me interested in whatever I learn have been the ones that are primarily interested in me