“What has helped me a lot is feedback from alumni. I stay in touch with our alumni (…) They realize that there was authenticity in the things I said and in the honesty I had with them—even with my flaws, with lots of things I still have to work on. They realize it. And when they come back, the first things they tell me is that I gave them a lot.”
“The last one (…) who came to see me—two weeks ago—she said to me, ‘I thought about you so much (…) because you always wanted us to go further (…) When I was in high school I noticed that there was not a single teacher who asked me to go further the way you did’ (…) In fact, it’s about them knowing I was paying attention to them.”