Twenty-eight-year-old Elaine Stafford is a very successful journalist. In elementary school Elaine loved English and always got excellent grades on her compositions. Everything changed when she was in the seventh grade and her English teacher retired. From the ages of 13 to 16 , her new English teacher told her that her compositions shouldn’t be so imaginative.
“Just before my 16th birthday, I realized that if I started writing boring compositions, I might get better grades. So, that’s what I did… and I started getting excellent grades and comments like: ‘this is much better!’
“To be fair, though, the teacher did help me in two ways. He taught me that there was more than one way of writhing compositions and that I had to learn to accept criticism. If I hadn’t learned these lessons, my early days as a journalist would have been much more difficult.”
Thirty-two-year-old John Wood is a surgeon at a famous Boston hospital. “During the first two years of high school, I found biology very difficult. My report cards always said things like ‘must try harder’ or ‘John ought to choose non-science classes.’ This was a disaster for someone who had always dreamed of becoming a doctor. I was so discouraged that I dropped out of high school at 16 and started working at a local supermarket.
“One evening I saw a documentary about Albert Einstein. According to the documentary, Einstein had done really badly at school. I began to think that if Einstein could succeed, then I may have a chance, too. I didn’t want to leave my job, so I decided to go to night school to finish high school. Within two years I applied to college and was accepted into a pre-med program!
“I’ve often thought should contact the reporter from the Einstein documentary and thank him. As for the biology teacher, I might contact her, too, one day – but not to thank her!”
Twenty-eight-year-old Elaine Stafford is a very successful journalist. In elementary school Elaine loved English and always got excellent grades on her compositions. Everything changed when she was in the seventh grade and her English teacher retired. From the ages of 13 to 16 , her new English teacher told her that her compositions shouldn’t be so imaginative. “Just before my 16th birthday, I realized that if I started writing boring compositions, I might get better grades. So, that’s what I did… and I started getting excellent grades and comments like: ‘this is much better!’ “To be fair, though, the teacher did help me in two ways. He taught me that there was more than one way of writhing compositions and that I had to learn to accept criticism. If I hadn’t learned these lessons, my early days as a journalist would have been much more difficult.” Thirty-two-year-old John Wood is a surgeon at a famous Boston hospital. “During the first two years of high school, I found biology very difficult. My report cards always said things like ‘must try harder’ or ‘John ought to choose non-science classes.’ This was a disaster for someone who had always dreamed of becoming a doctor. I was so discouraged that I dropped out of high school at 16 and started working at a local supermarket. “One evening I saw a documentary about Albert Einstein. According to the documentary, Einstein had done really badly at school. I began to think that if Einstein could succeed, then I may have a chance, too. I didn’t want to leave my job, so I decided to go to night school to finish high school. Within two years I applied to college and was accepted into a pre-med program! “I’ve often thought should contact the reporter from the Einstein documentary and thank him. As for the biology teacher, I might contact her, too, one day – but not to thank her!”
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