Perspective

There is something to be said for gaining a new perspective on life. Today I was reviewing a teacher's manual for the Government class I'll be teaching, while looking at it I saw things I didn't like and things I thought were great teaching tools. I imagine it works that way with all text books. But what really struck me was what happened when I went back to visit my old job recently, a job in the corporate world.

On a daily basis I conducted audits, worried about Sarbanes-Oxley, and held people accountable for their typos and written errors. And now, I'm repsonsible for children. Regardless of how little difference the "real world" thinks teachers make, or how underappreciated they are, teachers do something meaningful. Everyday they impart knowledge on to the future, and kids walk away with the imprint of that experience left on them. No one will ever remember that I initialed audits that were compliant, but there's a chance that one child will walk away with at least some kind of respect for the thing I am most passsionate about.

So here is to Corporate America, you can have your money, and you can have your ego, I'll take my Teacher's Edition any day.