I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.
Our government is the potent the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it...
I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.