From a lecture on education delivered to a group of Castleton University students and faculty by Adam Taylor, the superintendent of Rutland City Public Schools in Vermont. The talk was reported by Kate Barcellos for the Rutland Herald.

Your job is to motivate and inspire kids to be the greatest they can be. When you walk in that classroom, you have to figure it out. If you don’t cry seventy times in your first year, you’re not meant to be a teacher. That first year is when you really cut your teeth.

I’ll use an Oakland analogy. A pimp…