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Wendy Kopp

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  1. “I was at Brinston, liberal arts majors at Princeton. I mean, those were the companies that were banging down our doors. And so my thought was, you know, how different would it be in our country if we had many of the most promising future leaders instead of working on Wall Street for two years right out of college teaching for two years in urban and rural areas?”

    2017-10-09 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Teach For America: Wendy Kopp · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Yeah, I mean, I felt like when I was thinking about my own self and all of my peers at Princeton, you know, folks were really searching for, you know, what do we want to do? And not a whole lot of people.”

    2017-10-09 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Teach For America: Wendy Kopp · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Yeah, I mean, I looked at different things. I looked at other models. I looked at the Peace Corps and there was a federal teacher corps in the 60s And Vista. I mean, I really went back. I analyzed the policy context. You know, would this actually work? Could we get these folks into classrooms? And also at the Mood on College campuses, I mean, at all the factors and ended up in this thesis proposing the creation of a national teacher court.”

    2017-10-09 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Teach For America: Wendy Kopp · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “So I became obsessed. I mean, the minute I thought of it, I just thought this would change our country. It would change the consciousness of our country. And it became the answer to everything. Like, I need to propose this in my senior thesis.”

    2017-10-09 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Teach For America: Wendy Kopp · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Well, actually, I had organized a conference alongside some other students at Princeton about improving our education system. And it was at that conference where we had pulled together students from all over the country, and they were some of the most incredible student leaders, and they were saying, we had no idea there was a need for teachers in urban and rural areas. We would teach. And it was really sitting there that I thought of this idea, like, why aren't we channeling these people with energy into teaching? And what struck me was this idea that we would essentially build a movement among the rising generation of leaders to channel their energy, to teach in urban and rural public schools, knowing that that would have a really important immediate impact in classrooms and schools and in the lives of kids.”

    2017-10-09 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Teach For America: Wendy Kopp · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “To make it to Princeton, but still through her and through her friends, many of whom were kind of other first generation college students at Princeton, I realized how differently prepared they were to do well. So many things had turned me on to this fact that our country that claims to be and really aspires to be a place of equal opportunity really isn't one.”

    2017-10-09 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Teach For America: Wendy Kopp · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Honestly, I grew up in a community in Dallas, Texas that referred to itself as the bubble, you know, for its kind of lack of diversity and disadvantage. I mean, my parents had really made it a point to buy a place in this community so that we could go to the notably strong public schools there. And somehow I managed to grow up really without understanding the extreme disparities in our country and the fact that where you're born really does so much to determine whether you have access to an excellent education. And you can never become aware of that really in its full extent at Princeton, but on any campus and Princeton included, you can see evidence of that. My freshman, your roommate had gone to public schools in the Bronx. And, I mean, honestly, one of the most driven, brilliant people.”

    2017-10-09 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Teach For America: Wendy Kopp · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “When I walked into Ross Perot's office, I felt like I was at the end, like I had tried everything. I had tried to access everyone and I knew either he supports this or I just really don't know where else to turn. So I literally told myself, I won't leave his office. I'm going to glue myself to the chair in his office and I'm not going to leave until he commits.”

    2017-10-09 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Teach For America: Wendy Kopp · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT