Pursuing the career of my dreams

I don’t think I’ve ever watched the film Educating Rita but the title has stayed with me since I first heard it because Rita is my mother’s English name and she was very much an educator. Not only did my mother retrain from working as a high-ranking civil servant to becoming a secondary school teacher and then head of year; she also taught me to read and write when my primary school failed to help me in that area. I owe a lot to my mother.