Giving Back What Others Have Given You …

To me, along with Steve Jobs, one of the best graduation speeches was by Tim Minchin, and who outlined: [here]:

Be a teacher. Please, please, please be a teacher. Teachers are the most admirable and important people in the world. You don’t have to do it forever. But if you’re in doubt about what to do, be an amazing teacher just for your 20s. Be a teacher, be a primary school teacher, especially if you’re a bloke. We need male primary school teachers.

Even if you’re not a teacher, be a teacher, share your ideas. Don’t take for granted your education, rejoice in what you learn and spray it.

Most of us have benefited greatly from education and were possibly inspired at one time in our lives by a special teacher. For me, it was my biology teacher at school who brought his subject to life. And, it was George Rae — a Senior lecturer in electronics — whose every word meant something to me. His passion and his belief in his students were things I have never seen in any other person. In fact, George was years ahead of every other teacher I have ever seen and adopted multimedia in his lectures, while others just spoke about it. He showed me how to be inventive in my teaching while focusing on what really matters in topics.

And, so, what? Well, as I said, we have all benefited from education, and if you can…