Oprah Winfrey's Next Role: High School Teacher!

By Rob Shuter Posted Jul 6th 2011 06:16PM

Oprah Winfrey is back in the USA after spending time with her "girls" at the school she opened in South Africa, but don't fear, ladies, Miss O will be returning soon in the role of teacher.

"They were all stressed for tests, but doing fine," Oprah emailed fans -- including yours truly -- about her students. "No major crisis this trip. I love being with them and talking to them about all things important. When I'm there I'm talking from the time I get up till I go to bed, about EVERYTHING teenage girls are going through. It's the same all over the world."

Oprah revealed that she would be returning this fall to teach a class called 'It's Life 101' about all the stuff she wished someone had told her about how the world really works.

"Should be fun since I love to teach. And they're like sponges," Oprah said. "Like 12th graders everywhere, this first class is both anxious and excited about going to college. Most will be the first in their family. So it's a very big deal for them, and they're feeling the pressure."

Adding that there is nothing like leaving the USA to get a deeper appreciation of the freedoms we sometimes take for granted.

"When Chris Rock was last on the show he said, 'real wealth is having options.' I thought that was pretty profound," Oprah says. "I now stress to my girls that education prepares you to have options. Without it you have none. Just took a walk around the neighborhood watching sprinklers on the back lawn ... (I love sprinklers) Made me think about the red dirt road I traveled from
Mississippi (no sprinklers) to the here and now ... And how that journey could have only been possible in the USA."

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Thursday 07 July

By Paul

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Leave my shoes out of it!

Wednesday 06 July

By Sha-bang

I hope Steadman is getting paid well. You'd want a good-sized paycheck after you'd crawled on top of Oprah-mountain.

By Elaine

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Why Steadman have to be in it, and why people always say he getting paid We MISSISSIPPI Women know how to GET and KEEP a MAN
be careful not to bring yours this way.

By LoBur8

I love you Oprah.. Please keep doing great things for this world you are appreciated!

By ejkgolf69

Shell be back to teach more racism to her KIDS. What a joke this woman is.

By Charlie Taylor

PLEESE SPARE US......WE DON'T CARE WHAT THE FAT RACIST DOES

By Dora

What makes Oprah a racist? You are an ignorant moron! By the way look in the mirrow when you say "racist." You and the other morons are more likely referring to youselves.

By Mike

The phony queen of nothing.

By Say what?

Round and firm and fully-packed. It's Oprah and her truckload of righteousness.

By mike

Who care's what this clown is doing she's a joke. She made all her money here and then use it down there just stay there and teach racism. You wont be missed at all. One more thing take obama with you.

Friday 08 July

By Kim

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I agree with woo-hoo. Why all the ugliness people??

By June

Oh my goodness.Whatever is wrong with someone helping others.Didn't know color was so darn important.You go Oprah and do whatever you want.

By Soledad

Well June, now that you've given her permission to do whatever she's going to do anyway, I'm sure she'll sleep well.

By pugz

what is she going to teach, revisionist history?

By bella

Oprah is so impressive in every way.

By Mary

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Sure she is. NOT!!

By Ark

I think what Oprah is doing is great too. Not only is the richest and most philanthropic African American of all time and the most influential woman on the planet, but now she's a teacher too. I didn't think it was possible for any human to be that inspirational. I love, admire and respect her so much.

By Marie

Hey Ark,

did you pee in your pants from the excitement of thinking of Oprah?

By kevin

I really like Oprah Winfrey a lot. Not only is she a profoundly gifted entertainer who hosted the #1 talk show in America for 25 years, a show that popularized a genre of television that broke countless taboos (sex abuse, addiction, gays), but she's also created thousands of jobs and had the brains to rake in billions for herself. And now on top of everything else I see she's investing in the future of the most disadvantaged people on Earth (poor black girls in the third world). No wonder she's so admired. She's a very high quality person.

By bill latzko

THANKS GOODNESS SOMEONE WHO TELLS IT LIKE IT IS--PS i'M A WHITE MALE, 63, AND WATCHED ALMOST ALL OF HER SHOWS!!!

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