The day I retired from teaching, again, was one of the most satisfying days of my life and it was sad, but when I — the day I retired, I went home and I was by myself and I was having a glass of wine. I was thinking about the lunch the teachers gave me that day. The retirement lunch. And I was able to look back on that life, that 30 years in the classroom, and say — I was able to congratulate myself. I'm glad I did that. That was good. I felt useful, that I don't think I would have felt if I had gone into business or something like that.
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Frank McCourt
Teacher and memoirist; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Ireland · 1930–2009
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Irish-American teacher and writer who taught in New York public schools for thirty years and won the Pulitzer Prize for Angela's Ashes, a memoir of his Limerick childhood.
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