Who was your most influential teacher? Why?

I do not know if Mr. Sulley is still alive, but there is a reason I bring him up.

He was my eighth grade social studies teacher – and it wasn’t because of what he taught. But how.

Details. Unbiased options. Truthfulness. All to the benefit of his pupils. And in more ways than one, shaped how I viewed history.

By the time I was in tenth grade, I had learned more about the world and the populations predecessors than my mother ever knew in 42 years of life during that time.

It lead me to read books, research events, and question everything I learned or saw. In fact, there is a large majority of boomers who didn’t realize why many things happened (I’d say the internet changed that, though.)

They were living in a bubble, and Mr. Sulley popped it – and made sure the illusion never respawned. I was ostracized at a very young age because I had a pocket full of reality, and I was too young to be so wise, and intelligent.

For that, I will always respect him. It was the beginning of me opening my eyes to various things that would have taken me a lifetime on my own.