In my experience, one of the best returns in an educator’s life is to see her former students graduate and thrive in their careers. It feels so good when a former student sends an email saying: “Hey professor, I had taken such and such class with you and then you wrote for me a letter of recommendation and I got into law school and now I am doing very well at such and such company. Thank you.” You simply feel you have, in fact, touched THAT life and in a very good way, too! I just cannot think of a better reward for an educator. Otherwise, what’s the point?
And that’s why it was lovely to see that Damian Lewis did write the foreword for his drama school teacher Ken Rea’s book TheĀ Outstanding Actor and giving a speech at the book launch party back in 2015 š
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