From ‘Never a Teacher’ to ‘Why Not?’: Reluctant Educator Recalls His Indian Day School Experience

“Never a teacher,” I declared from the time I was in public school, growing up in the Leamington district of southwestern Ontario. When I finished high school in Ontario, I enrolled at Canadian Mennonite Bible College (CMBC) in Winnipeg, and the “never a teacher” assertion played a prominent role in my mind through college, even though I openly claimed I was ready to do whatever the Lord wanted me to do.