SK
Teachers who recognise that each child is different.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2017 source ↗
The question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Others on this question
View all 426 →Sister Alice Marie Quinn, who runs St. Vincent Meals on Wheels in Los Angeles.
Jay Z. He’s a mogul. He’s a Sagittarius like me. I love his business moves.
Zelenskyy for holding out against Putin.
Stuart Broad
English former cricketer and commentator
Sienna Miller. For obvious reasons!
More from Shappi Khorsandi
View profile →I’m convinced heartache almost killed me a few years ago.
Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.
A miniature pet elephant, one that is no bigger than a guinea pig.
Getting an A for my English A-level. I’m dyslexic; it was never detected and I was written off as scatty and lazy. This proved everyone wrong, including me.
Utterly relentless warmth and peace.
A walk-on part for my mum in Les Misérables. It was in a charity auction. She always dreamed of being in a West End show.
More on values & belief
- What is the trait you most deplore in others? 210 answers
- What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong? 91 answers
- What important truth do very few people agree with you on? 48 answers
- What are you unwilling to optimise? 37 answers
- What have you come to understand about what it means to be human? 31 answers
- What do you need to believe in order to get through the day? 25 answers
Also answered this
Joan Jett, Ian McEwan, Jeff Goldblum, Joshua Ferris, Walton Goggins, Liz Jones
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All values & belief questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject