Let me think back to the date that has changed my life forever. March 14, 1993 is the day that I will never forget. I think about that day a lot now. It was my second birth, with the same body but a different soul. A soul that would have been the same until I met one lady, Miss Hellen Kidder, my philosophy teacher. She changed my life forever with just one book called Win Friends. Like Nicholas Gage, my mentor is no one else but my teacher, a teacher who changed my life by changing my thoughts. Miss Marjorie Hurd changed Nicholas Gage's life in his story "The Teacher Who changed My Life." She was a teacher who gave him a new outlook in his war-ravaged, impoverished homeland.
             Stereotyping is gossip about the world, gossip that makes us prejudge people before we ever lay eyes on them. I used to judge people by race, language, and by looks, which was shrinking my views of the world every second. When I was about twelve, Miss Hellen Kidder loved to teach me philosophy. Her open-mindedness towards the judgment of people of all kinds, race, and religion and their stereotypes fascinated me. In many points I was hungry to learn about more people, and to be more open-minded like Miss Kidder and her words could be like gold to a young mind as mine. Like Gage's Ms. Hurd who encouraged him "to write about what happened to his family in Greece. (204)" prepared him to explore his painful memories to his class fellows and later then to the whole nation. As I grew more towards philosophy, Miss Kidder directed me towards her personal library where she handed me a book called, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
             "Meanwhile, I followed the literary path that Miss Hurd had so forcefully set me on. (205)" Comparing myself to Gage, his teacher forced him to follow her path and my teacher threw me closer to her open-mindedness towards the judgment of people. As Miss Kidder pulled this well us...