Claire Baker Profile

My accomplishments and other achievements

I have accomplished everything that I have set my mind to, physically and intellectually. (Spiritually, I'm still a work in progress)
I am (without being immodest) an incredible teacher. Not only do I teach, but I empower.
I have loved deeply, and I have been loved, and I am grateful for both.

My idea worth spreading

I have travelled a long career path (via law) to finally end up as a teacher, which is where I belong. I teach high school children and every day I encourage them to look critically at the world around them, to ask questions, to take nothing for granted, to develop their own ideas, to look with awe and wonder at the universe around them and, most important, to understand their place in it. I genuinely believe that anything is possible and that everyone, without exception, is truly great. I want to be exposed to as many new, interesting, bizarre, outrageous, thought-provoking ideas as possible firstly because I just love hearing how and what people think and secondly, so that I can take those ideas back to the kids that I teach and make them think too.

What I love to do

Watch the stars from the top of the Drakensberg.
Snorkel all day with the fishes in warm coastal waters.
Read incredible literature.
Write terrible poems.
Talk about interesting things with kindred spirits.
All of that has to be done with music in the background. Music is god incarnate.

Who I am

I prefer to be real.
I would like to help the earth/people and/or animals somehow.