"I'd always been interested in psychology"
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As an educator, Schwartz’s intent isn’t to announce expertise so much as to establish orientation. Teachers trade in content, but the memorable ones trade in perception. “Interested in psychology” reads like a professional philosophy: if you want to teach human beings, you’d better study the human being. The line also functions as a soft rebuttal to the myth of the purely rational classroom. Learning is never just information transfer; it’s fear, pride, shame, ambition, loneliness. Naming psychology is a way of admitting the emotional economy underneath every syllabus.
Context matters because Schwartz is most culturally encountered as the terminally ill mentor figure popularized through Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie. In that setting, “psychology” isn’t clinical. It’s moral and relational: paying attention to grief, desire, avoidance, the stories people tell to stay intact. The modesty of the sentence is part of its power. It refuses the thunderclap of revelation and instead offers the quieter claim that a meaningful life can be built from sustained noticing.
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"I'd always been interested in psychology." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/id-always-been-interested-in-psychology-5164/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.






