If you become a teacher, in the great Bridgewater tradition, you will be able to imagine creative, engaging activities connected to explicit, clearly articulated goals. We will educate your linguistic imagination. You will no longer trust like Humpty Dumpy that when I use a word it means exactly what I want it to mean. You will be able to get outside of your language and look in, to see how much of your thinking is affected by the language you do your thinking in. You will have the empathy to imagine how words affect others, that words can hurt.
Words can separate and divide, and words can quite literally kill.
The very word cancer keeps thousands of men and women from seeking medical advice and treatment in the presence of unmistakable symptoms. Every year fear of words like faggot and dyke drive hundreds of your contemporaries in this state alone to take their lives. Finally, we will educate your moral imagination. If we do not increase your capacity for empathy, then we have failed. You will have the imagination to look for and see that goodness and virtue take many forms and that evil often comes dressed in a business suit.