Sometime I cannot believe how people can be so presumptuous.
You do not know that I had a mother, or who taught me anything.
If you are going to call anyone that anybody has ever learned anything from a teacher, like the chemistry books I got from the library and the chemist in the leather factory chem labs I spent many afternoons talking to (fifth and sixth grades) teachers, than everyone is a teacher.
If that’s the game, then I guess we could put it this way. That class of teachers who get paid with money confiscated from other people by the government, are essentially crooks, who generally prevent real education provided by real, non-government non-union teachers.
Hank
You’ve made my point 100%. We are all teachers, or at least we can be.
So yes, if you learned to read (and it appears you did) you should thank the teacher that taught you, be it your mom, your dad, your grandparent, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
They (or he or she) were you first teacher and it looks like they did a good job.
Or did you just want to start a flame war and I missed your point entirely?