Thanks, Jeffrey! I’m so glad you had a high school mentor. I’m not sure why I never had an amazing teacher, but I suspect it may have had at least a little to do with the apathy that had apparently been the national experience in taking US superiority for granted. I graduated in 1958. My sister, who was four years behind me, had to work …
Thanks, Jeffrey! I’m so glad you had a high school mentor. I’m not sure why I never had an amazing teacher, but I suspect it may have had at least a little to do with the apathy that had apparently been the national experience in taking US superiority for granted. I graduated in 1958. My sister, who was four years behind me, had to work much harder to get good grades, and I’m sure it’s because Sputnik, in 1957, jolted the US into taking a hard look at its educational system. I’m a product of the near-term post-WW2 mentality, I guess.
Thanks, Jeffrey! I’m so glad you had a high school mentor. I’m not sure why I never had an amazing teacher, but I suspect it may have had at least a little to do with the apathy that had apparently been the national experience in taking US superiority for granted. I graduated in 1958. My sister, who was four years behind me, had to work much harder to get good grades, and I’m sure it’s because Sputnik, in 1957, jolted the US into taking a hard look at its educational system. I’m a product of the near-term post-WW2 mentality, I guess.