My middle school English teacher and the film His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, made me more interested in journalism.

FORBES: Top 10 Tips For Young Aspiring Journalists

My male high school journalism teacher taught me to write and most of my female English teachers gave me a love of literature that is one of the mainstays of my spiritual life to this day.

FORBES: Reframing Controversial Issues Often Resolves Them

As a middle school English teacher, most of my reading material lies in the land of YA fiction (I must admit, I LOVE the likes of Eragon, Inkheart, and of course, Harry Potter).

NPR: 'A Walk in the Woods' by Bill Bryson

Growing up, my dream was to be a high school English teacher and to work in inner city schools to teach young people how to express their lives, their challenges and aspirations through writing.

WHITEHOUSE: Connecting the Dots

How it affected us on a, kind of, more human and more emotional level, that's difficult to quantify, but I remember when I - in my school, we had a French teacher who was actually an English woman.

NPR: Orchestrating Goodwill for Northern Ireland

Dumont "saved my life, both physically and spiritually, " said Ms. Vivier, an English teacher and poet.

WSJ: This North Dakota Mom, 77, Reared 69 Kids

The 1985 Israfel Society Conference, the first meeting of Edgar Allan Poe specialists to be held outside the northern hemisphere, was to take place in Buenos Aires, less than a thousand kilometres from my apartment in Bonfim, and was, therefore, within the budget of a poor translator and teacher of English (which, as you know, is what I am).

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