Throughout my career I have taught in an adjunct capacity at several colleges, fulltime at others, and now find myself in a tenure track position making a contribution to education in a number of capacities. I am also a student. I study the most effective ways to teach and I teach others how to teach. It's a tremendous responsibility because I have the opportunity to affect thousands of people in some small but perhaps significant fashion. To not respond with a sense of purpose and emphatic relevance could result in missing the chance for grasping the possibilities life has to offer.
Teaching is the most important job in the world.