Three teachers helped spark something in me that made my education worth something.

I wasn’t a very studious student in grade school or high school.  I didn’t have much in the way of study habits.  But I got lucky because I had three teachers – one in grade school, one in middle school and one in high school – who helped me become very interested in the one subject that would help me get a decent paying job once I left college.

Mr. Sweeney was the first one to make history interesting to me.  It was in his class that I found out that I could compete with the smartest students in the class.  Mr. Freidli was my eighth grade social studies teacher.  It was in his class that I found out that I could actually do better than my classmates in the field.  Mr. Keller was my teacher junior year, and Killer Keller taught me that I didn’t really know much about history at all, which at the time, was useful knowledge, because it inspired me to learn more.  I eventually got a Master’s Degree in history, which has served me well in my career.  Read more...