Teachers

“You put my name forward in a room I was not in and never told me you had done it. I found out years later from somebody else entirely, which is exactly like you.”

“You had a whole room to look after and you still noticed me in it. One sentence from you changed what I thought I was capable of.”

“You gave me the work before I was ready for any of it and then let me struggle. You were always close enough to catch it and you never once reached in.”

“You gave me time you did not owe me and advice nobody was paying for. And you kept doing it long after it had stopped being any part of your job.”

“You kept one piece of my work and put it on the wall where the whole class could see. I had never been the one on the wall before and I have never forgotten the feeling.”

“You were never particularly interested in whether I enjoyed the session itself. You cared whether I finished it, which turned out to be the useful question.”

“You asked for more than I thought I had and you did it every single session. It was deeply annoying at the time and it is the reason I kept going.”

“I was not an easy one to teach and we both know exactly what that cost you. You kept asking me questions long after I had stopped answering them.”