Those on the network are always the loudest and most obvious.

[But he smiled. This was a good kid.]

A free range teen? I was one myself, and it's why I became a teacher at all. I don't think I was much older than you when I made that decision, either.

[He had participated in that fateful war at only nineteen, after all. By the time he was twenty he was trying to barter for lecturing rights in the very classroom that had shamed and infuriated him. ]

A good teacher is also a student, you know. No one is ever really done learning.

... And, honestly? I don't ask my students to do anything I'm not currently working on as well. Sometimes having a level playing field helps.