When you do that, you can give it your best. I'm proud of my profession and how teaching makes a difference in the lives you touch. I love what I do and I'm grateful for the opportunity to do it.

I have difficulty calling myself a great teacher and I don't think I've really ever altered my teaching style at all. We have a lot more technology available to draw from now, but I have to admit I still do things now like I did when I started teaching at Buford in 1970.

When they do understand, it is eye-opening because teaching is generally understood to be an underpaid profession.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

It's really unfair to our young teachers and discouraging them from entering the profession, particularly in the most challenging teaching environments where they're most needed.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.