The power of place-based public service | Lee Tillman | TEDxDoncaster

Have you ever been let down by someone who was there to lift you up. My teacher told me that I was fat. I grew up not too far from here and I was learning to write using an ink nib.I was overweight. I didn't have much confidence. didn't really believe in myself, but I was practicing.I was trying my very hardest to make that writing the best it could be. And the teacher asked me to come to the front of the class and he dictated a sentence for me to copy out. And he said, "Do it in your very, very best writin ...