The Doctor has saved the Earth a million times, and countless other worlds besides, and do you know why? Because a long time ago, two human schoolteachers taught a suspicious, selfish old man how to be kind by being kind themselves, and I think that’s wonderful.
The Doctor was brave and clever and curious before he met Ian and Barbara, but he was also callous, calculating, and conniving.
How many civilizations owe their existence to Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright? How many people became heroes because those two schoolteachers had taught the Doctor to be a hero?




