A WRITER'S WIT: FRANK MCCOURT

I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into—when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.
​Frank McCourt
Author of Teacher Man:  A Memoir
​Born August 19, 1930

F. McCourt

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