every teacher i've ever had has some how shaped who i am, either as a student or a person.

i challenge one person to logically think that statment through and then say teachers have no impact.

you spend majority of your childhood and adolescent under the command of a teacher, how could that NOT impact a person life, and that is putting aside the person relationships many students develope with their teachers.

it's easy to say that all of them were irreplaceable and you'd be in the exct position your in now if you'd had entirely different teachers, but really, truly and logically, that isnt possible.

(think about it this way... i had a brilliant math teacher in middle school who helped me understand and enjoy the subject. until that point i'd never excelled at math or even attempted to do well in it. in highschool i had two teachers who were terrible but becuae of my middle school math teacher i'd not only been given the foundation but the drive to do well. i passed my state math exams, went on to take a high placing math in college and subsequently will have an easier time getting into a masters program and passing things like statistical psych which im taking this semester. had i never been given that foundation for all I know i could have failed my math tests, not gotten into the school that i did, taken a completly different major, not be looking towards graduate school and who knows what else could have happened. teachers change lives whether you choose to accept it or not.)