We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

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.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

I was an elementary school teacher.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.