-: Yeah, it was to me a wonderful experience.
And I'll tell you why.
One of the things that happened to me very early on
was I had an opportunity to student teach.
And I was in a program where I thought
these were gifted students, and so I was challenging them.
We had a business problem that we had to solve.
And we got two-thirds of the way through the semester,
and the teacher came to me and said,
"What's going on?
"These kids can't do this work, and you're challenging them
"to do all these things."
And I said, "What are you talking about?
"These are gifted students."
He said, "These kids aren't gifted.
"The program was originally set up for gifted students,
"but we needed more diversity
"so these aren't gifted students.
"They're just traditional students."
And what I learned was if you challenge people,
and you provide them with the tools,
they can do amazing things.
And so I've taken that with me through my entire career.
And allowed people to flourish by just saying,
Here's our goal.
You figure out how to get there.
And people will amaze you, if you give them the chance.