Why Teaching English is Important to Me
Eversince I was a young child, I knew what I wanted to be. My mother taught English at St. Elmo from 1958 to 1968. She instilled in me early a love of literature and learning. I became interested in the literary history of the language we speak and wanted to teach others to appreciate our literary heritage as well. My mother was a writer of poetry and prose, and I found my own voice in the fifth grade and have been writintg eversince. In our fast paced world of the here and now, we can sometimes lose the appreciation of our literary culture.. It is the influence of the written word that can often reintroduce us to ourselves and help us appreciate and understand each other even across cultural divides. Through literature, we often find similarities in the ways that we think and reason and believe. It is through this shared literary heritage that we can break down divides of misunderstanding, ignorance, and indifference and begin to understand one another.