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Wendy Kopp

Founder of Teach For America; chief executive of Teach For All

United States · b. 1967

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American educator who proposed a national teaching corps in her Princeton undergraduate thesis and founded Teach For America in 1990. She later founded Teach For All, a network of independent organisations running comparable programmes in dozens of countries.

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Question How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? Failure & regret read 77 other answers →

I applied to one firm in every sector. This was the most half-hearted job search. “I’ll apply for that management consulting firm and this investment bank…” and I applied for five jobs altogether, because my heart wasn’t in it. And thankfully… I’m so glad I didn’t get any of those big jobs! Because that made this decision easier.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 17 September 2013 source ↗

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