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>> I'm Joshua Ramo.
I live now between New York City and Beijing, but I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
My favorite teacher is John Brayman who taught me at the Albuquerque Academy.
He was the Outdoor Education teacher, and he changed my life.
I found myself camping and hiking and rock climbing and sleeping under the stars and lighting fires
and being rewarded for actually letting my mind expand so that it was getting closer and closer to nature.
The way you look at the world when you're in the wilderness,
not only because you have to survive but because it's so glorious, is to look all around you all the time.
And that's what John taught me.
The new front line for the American values is right in the classroom,
and the lead soldiers are going to be the educators.
Where is the intersection of your dreams and the reality of your life decided?
It's decided by that one teacher or those two teachers who tell you something is possible
that everybody else has told you isn't possible.
That's where the American dream takes place.
We need a new generation of teachers to join those already in the classroom.
Teach.