Quite a while ago, I made a conscious choice to place my teaching first, so it was very ego-invested. That decision wasn't a good thing in some ways.
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.
Shirley Geok-lin LimNo matter how sheltered [my students] are, no matter how their parents try to do right by them, every single one of them, you know, every single one of us, that's what we all face.โAnd so it's made me - that's the one change I've marked in myself - it's made me change in the way I relate to my students. I've become a different teacher in that way.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim