With his white board markers, a projector and a box of Smarties, against the backdrop of the picturesque Knysna Lagoon, William Smith demystified maths and science for generations of South Africans. That's the ultimate desire of any teacher, to have people say that part of my success is thanks to you! You have to accept you're going to get questions you don't know, so don't ham it up. "That was the most difficult thing I ever did because we had different countries, different syllabi, different backgrounds and you had different languages and we were working on satellite phones. It left Smith devastated, believing she was more concerned with her own political survival than the education of millions of children.

Source: News 24 April 28, 2019 07:52 UTC