You've probably heard many stories like this (and so have I), but here is one more ...

A girl from from a very poor family within the inner city, has a teacher who has really impacted her life.  (I had a teacher, or two who made me so nervous I felt impacted ...but that's another story, or shouldn't be a story at all.)   In this story, the teacher had a positive impact on her life.   And with that encouragement, that young girl felt she could be somebody, and she went on to become a school teacher.   And she got the "Teacher of the Year" award for her success with working with a difficult group of students in the inner city, that most everyone else had given up on.   The success was because her own life had been touched, and she wanted to reach out and have a similar effect upon others.