In 1959, when Jean was in the third grade, her teacher gave the class an assignment to write a report on what they wanted to be when they grew up.
She poured her heart into her report and expressed her dream of becoming an airline pilot. Her paper come back with an F on it. The teacher told her it was a fairy tale.
Jean was heartbroken and ashamed. As the years went by, Jean was beaten down by the discouragement and negativity she encountered whenever she talked about her dream.
Girls cannot become airline pilots; never have, never will. You are crazy. That is impossible. Finally Jean gave up.
In her senior year of high school, her English teacher, A demanding teacher with high standards.
One day she asked this questions:If you had unlimited finances, unlimited access to the finest schools, unlimited talents and abilities, what would you do?
Jean felt a rush of the old enthusiasm, and with excitement she wrote down the very old dream.
The next thing that she said changed the course of Jean's life.
The teacher leaned forward over her desk and said, I have a little secret for you. You do have unlimited abilities and talents. When you leave school, if you don't go for your dreams, on one will do it for you.Ypu can have what you want if you want it enough.
The hurt and fear of years of discouragement disappeared all of a sudden. Jean felt thrilled and told her about her dream of becoming a pilot. She slapped the desk top. then do it. She said.
So Jean did. It didnot happen overnight. In her 10 years of hard work, even facing varieties of laugh, frustration and opposition, she never gave up her dream. Instead, she went to doing everything her third-grade teacher said was fairy-tale.
Eventually, Jean became a Boeing 737 captain for the United Airline Company.
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