Featured Teachers: Sarah Weisberg
Get to know some of our teachers through the Proust Questionnaire, liberally adapted from French writer Marcel Proust (1871–1922).
Sarah Weisberg teaches eighth-grade and junior English. She has been teaching for three years, all of them at St. Michael’s.
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A movie director.
What is your favorite animal?
Tigers, crows, and dogs.
What is your favorite color?
All.
Your most marked characteristic?
My sense of humor.
What do you think are your greatest faults?
Bossiness, self-righteousness.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Living in the NOW.
Who is your favorite artist or musician?
Bob Dylan and Pablo Picasso.
Who are your favorite writers or poets?
Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson.
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Hamlet.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Marc Anthony, Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, John F. Kennedy.
Who are your heroes in real life?
Artists.
What quality do you most admire in people?
Integrity.
Where would you most like to travel?
India.
If you had not become a teacher, what would you like to have done instead?
Worked in the movies.
What do you most value in your friends?
A sense of humor and the absurd.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Losing someone I love.
What is your favorite word?
“Dang!” (under any circumstance)
What is your greatest pet peeve?
Irrational hate or ignorance.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Speedy reading and comprehension.
What is your motto?
“I’m cool and tall.”
What is your present state of mind?
Zany.