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“Who wrote this letter?” she asked in a stern tone, glaring down her spectacles at me.<\/p>\n
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My headmistress Miss Howard had called me to the front of the class.<\/p>\n
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I intrepidly walked to the front naively wondering if the cane was in force.<\/p>\n
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All this while my heart thumped my chest from within.<\/p>\n
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She was the strictest and most revered teacher in Heath Town CoE Primary School, Wolverhampton, UK (now called Trinity, CoE Primary School).<\/p>\n
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I had written and fraudulently signed a letter of sickness on behalf of my mother (because she couldn’t write in English).<\/p>\n
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I told Miss Howard I had written it, praying she wouldn’t realise I\u2019d counterfeited my mother’s signature too.<\/p>\n
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I thought I’d been caught out but suddenly she asked, “where did you get this word ‘influenza<\/em>‘?”<\/p>\n
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With a deep intake of air, I told her it came from my pocket dictionary (which my father had given me).<\/p>\n
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Then, with a glowing smile and soft but firm tone she praised me in a crescendo, “well done, well done…WELL DONE”.<\/p>\n
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In a remarkable twist, she seemed to be impressed and overjoyed. Was it because I knew the medical term for the flu? (At that time, I didn’t honestly fully know the difference between a cold and the flu).<\/p>\n
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Now gazing deep into my eyes, she paused then told me something that would stay with me for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n
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“Learn just one new word a day and you will go far.<\/em>” -Miss Howard.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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At the time I thought okay and what does\u00a0go far<\/em>\u00a0even mean. Insidiously, it started to make me wonder\u2026<\/p>\n
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That \u2018one new word a day\u2019 translated into new thoughts, ideas, concepts, mechanisms, perceptions, perspectives, voices, networks, breaking things down into their simplest units, consistency, good habits, continuous learning and much more.<\/p>\n
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In its simplest form, the habit she indoctrinated is that of continuous life-long learning.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Now over 30 years ago, and she is\u00a0still<\/em>\u00a0the best teacher I ever had. I don’t know if she could have had any idea of the compounding effect of a few\u00a0words of advice<\/em>\u00a0and encouragement.<\/p>\n
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She taught me many great things. However, in just this one sentence she had given an abundance of gifts: a great\u00a0habit<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0courage<\/strong>\u00a0to follow through with what would have a ‘butterfly effect’ throughout my whole life.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t know where she is or if I’ll even be able to see her again to show my gratitude, but I will always be grateful to her for the transformation that day and for being\u00a0the best teacher I ever had<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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I have been teaching for many years now but this is one of the reasons I decided to teach.<\/p>\n
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I know if I could just do even for one person what Miss Howard did for me I could make an incredible impact on someone\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”- Winston Churchill.<\/p>\n
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Great teachers do more than just teach; they inspire and change peoples\u2019 lives, forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Biography:<\/p>\n
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