Who was your most influential teacher? Why? – Asks the daily prompt.
I answered the same question 2 years ago with a post called Teach and not much has changed since then. All those answers are still true.
So today I’ll answer this question a bit differently. I think I’ll list some things that hopefully I’ve taught others along the way.
- I hope I’ve taught manors and courtesy.
- I hope I’ve taught respect and admiration.
- I hope I’ve taught truth to power and not being afraid to speak up.
- I hope I’ve taught compassion and caring.
- I hope I’ve led by example by a strong work ethic and ability to do well under pressure.
- I hope I’ve shared as many life skills as I have trained people in work skills.
- I hope I’ve shared love and laughter with you.
- I’ve taught myself in retrospect I could have done better with the opportunity I had. But we all can.
- I hope I have a lot more to teach. It’s almost as much fun as learning.
One thing that won’t need to be taught anymore is being a pressman. I hear the Washington Post is shutting down its Springfield Plant at the end of the year. That will spell the end of the 8 presses they purchased (4 for each plant) in 1995 for $250 million. I started out in Engraving rooms and learned a bit on an old 9-unit Goss press.
The things below are monsters compared to what I learned on.
Funny how a newspaper won’t even be in my grandchildren’s vocabulary in the future apart from me boring them with my history.
