No Ordinary Time Analysis

People have tried to tell me schooling does not determine who you are in life, it is creativity, curiosity, perseverance, and constant questioning of social norms that are the driving factors of those that change the world, for better or for worse. Nonsense. School is a primary place to learn to create habits out of propensities.
My junior year was an adventure of sinewave-like sleep schedules because of challenging courses, increased class and team leadership responsibilities, friends and family relationship progressions, sport and volunteer schedules. The one constant I looked forward to each day was my Advance Placement US History teacher, David Hanna, a lynchpin of predictability.
Mr. Hanna is the type of teacher movies and television programs promise students is out there waiting for them at some point in their life. There is a natural attraction to and lasting impact of someone who takes his job seriously, has the academic passion, and believes in his students’ potential. Stressing the importance of reading; he taught me to read to use history, comprehend actions of the benevolent and malevolent as influenced by zeitgeists to redevelop my understanding of life.
Why respect cannot be bought, success does not come without sacrifice, and everyone has the potential to leave a meaningful mark on humanity became evident. He crystalized the cumulative effect of humanities studies is a heightened knowledge curiosity about the world’s peoples and places. I came to terms with the fact that literature, as the basis of thinking, is the pathway to wherever you wish in history, art, architecture, philosophy, government, even math and science.