“You see, Dr. Grant’s grumpy, disenchanted professor is precisely how I thought all my teachers were back in 1993.

Back then, I didn’t see passion in my teachers. I saw only rules and order at best and judgement and assumptions at worst. Granted, I grew up in an elementary system in the south that still recited a morning prayer on the loudspeaker and also still used paddling as a regular form of discipline.”