Terrence Ho

1. Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from and what were you doing before arriving at THINK Global School?

After graduating from uni, I spent a year and a half as a busker (guitar/voice with occasional violin), performing on streets worldwide as my sole source of income. This time confirmed for me a few things – the power of art as a language and my determination to become a teacher (since age five). I then taught in Chicago for a year, Thailand for two years, and Taiwan for two years before returning to teach at my alma mater in Gainesville, FL.

2. What are your favorite aspects of your job?

Designing curriculum, conversations with students, and field experiences.

3. If you could make one major change to global education, what would it be?

Removal of opaque admission processes.

4. Which of our core values do you feel you most embody, and why?

求知慾. My travel, drawing, music, and teaching are driven by curiosity and feed into a constant challenging of assumptions – both mine and those of people around me.

5. What is your most memorable travel experience thus far?

In 2010, during my busking trip around the world, I found myself in Wrocław, Poland. I decided to busk on the “lover’s bridge” Tumski Most. Not long after I began, however, a large skinhead stole money from my case, antagonized me, and then threatened violence. Just as he was approaching to hit me, however, a young man on a bicycle came and stopped between us. He calmed the aggressor long enough to lead me to the safer part of town (for foreigners), then bid me farewell.

6. If you could visit anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Iran