Blog Posts in “University”

A trusted teacher’s positive expectations about you, at just the right time, can often be the catalyst that sets you free to a higher trajectory.

I had just turned 17 when I arrived back at Churchill, a well-known senior public school. It was at a low point in my academic life. I had just transferred from St. George's College, a private school where I had ignominiously failed all my school leaving exams. I felt apprehensive and beaten up,…