I decided at age 10 that I was going to be a teacher because I 1 superpowers. When I was in primary school, I could clearly see that some of my 2 had superpowers because I was always the quietly observant one, 3 things.
Our English teacher could magically 4 us to different worlds every day, simply by reading stories to us from books we would otherwise never 5 .This was our secret because fifth graders were considered too 6 to have stories read out to them. Then our headmaster, a teacher as well, 7 everything about every child. You couldn't 8 his laser - like (激光般的) eyes that could see right into you一through flesh, bones and all And our geography teacher could 9 the invisible (隐形的). I remained rather quiet and unnoticeable. 10 , she would spot me. The unspoken 11 in her superpowered eyes told me: "I see you, I know you, I understand you."
As I learned from them, the 12 of a primary school educator is to teach children, not subjects. What seems 13 to me is that all those teachers calmly create 14 in their ordinary classrooms. No one ever noticed that they were so creative in 15 young human beings.
Teaching is not just a job一it is a science and an art, and it 16 emotional labour and input. When I 17 after teaching for three decades, what gives me 18 is remembering the children who felt happier in school because I was their teacher. When I meet others who 19 to gain superpowers, like the brand-new teacher struggling to perfect her sills, or the one in a rural school traveling seventy kilometers each way just for the pupils, I feel 20 to belong to the same group.
