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Title: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: The Burgomaster on March 09, 2011, 02:20:37 PM
Here's a rip-off of the "Teachers you HATE/HATED" discussion.

I liked:

* My 6th grade homeroom teacher.  She was a good teacher and I had a crush on her, too.  We used to joke around a lot with each other.  One day, she made a wisecrack about me while I was drinking out of the water bubbler.  I  took a mouthful of water and spit it on her sweater.  She chased me into the classroom, threw me on the floor, straddled my stomach and pinned me down.  All the other kids thought it was hilarious.  If this happened today, she would probably get fired and end up in court on some sort of sex charge.

* My 1st grade homeroom teacher.  She was in her early 20s and I had a crush on her, too.  I felt bad when I found out she was getting married and planned to be a stay-at-home wife.  She used to wear skirts and sometimes walked around the classroom with no shoes on . . . just her nylons.  Even as a little kid, I found this to be erotic.

* My 4th grade English/Science teacher.  He was just an all-around great guy and encouraged my creative side.  I used to love writing short stories and he gave me lots of compliments and told me to keep writing.  I wonder where he is now?

* My 6th grade math teacher.  Similar to my 4th grade English/Science teacher.  He was a very encouraging guy and seemed to take a lot of interest in my future.  Great sense of humor, too.



Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on March 09, 2011, 02:29:50 PM
I had two teachers andone coach who really shaped the person I became. 
One was an artist-turned scientist who really taught me to open my eyes to the world and pay attention to everything around me. 
The other teacher was a drama teacher who had a way of kidding you into expanding your comfort zones.

The couach was a swimming coach who used strategy and tactics to consistently win meets even with inferior swimmers in any given heat.   

-Ed


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Olivia Bauer on March 09, 2011, 02:32:04 PM
My Comm 11/Drama/Film Analysis teacher, Mr. Lawrence. I had many classes with him but he is by far the best teacher I've ever had. He's understanding and funny too. He came back to school after being at a depressing funeral and as soon as he walked in he said, "That was depressing. We're all watching Young Frankenstein."

He's never scolded me for anything. One time I was failing his class and I asked him for my grades. This hilarious scene occurred.

Me: "Lawrence!"
Lawrence: "Hmm?"
Me: "Grades."
Lawrence: "Huh?"
Me: "Check my grades please, am I missing something?"
Lawrence: "Yeah, don't walk up to me talking like Frankenstein, 'UUURGGG... GRAAAAAADEEEZZ!!'"
Me: "PUT IT ON THE WRIIIITTTZZZZ!!"
*Lawrence nearly falls over laughing*


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: JaseSF on March 09, 2011, 05:13:02 PM
My high school English teachers Mr. Long and Mr. Cooper. Although I found it tough to get high marks from them both, they both encouraged creativeness and a surprising level of freedom in writing and reading projects. Both also tended to show movies in class which I recall enjoying including Lord of the Flies, Macbeth and A Fish Called Wanda...


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Mr. DS on March 09, 2011, 07:53:48 PM
My college public speaking professor named Chris.  I recall when he first walked in thinking he was a student.  The guy had a punk rock look wearing a tshirt and jeans.  Turns out he was extremely knowledgable and well spoken.  He also was a major influence on me when it came to radio performance and production.  Plus one day after class I found out he was massive horror movie film.  Not just the mainsteam stuff but a lot of what we discuss here.  We'd often sit after class and discuss living dead films.  I'm glad to say we still keep in contact through FB. 

I had a history professor in college that was an older gentleman.  I don't know if I have an exact reason for liking him but he was just cool.  You'd see him in the hall and he'd always stop to say hello and ask how you were doing.  He taught mostly from videos. 

Earlier in life there was a fourth grade teacher that was awesome.  She was the nutty professor of our school always doing odd experiments in class.  Then she'd run the creative writing class that I participated in.  She loved my stuff over many of the students there and was a major influence in my ability to write.




Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: indianasmith on March 09, 2011, 07:58:26 PM
I am a teacher now, but I had some really good and really bad teachers coming up.

My favorite college professor was Dr. Robin Rudoff, a European History specialist who had an incredible gift for lecturing.  He was tough, demanding, opinionated, and absolutley brilliant!  Undergrads were generally terrified of him, and the only D I ever made on a history test I got from him my freshman year.  But I toughed it out and pulled an A on his final after working my TAIL off to study . . . I've never been so proud of a grade in my life!  And to hear him hold forth on Henry VIII, or Charles II, or Adolf Hitler - he could paint a picture with words that would just hang in the air in front of you!


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Nukie 2 on March 09, 2011, 11:16:28 PM
Mrs. Ikegami second grade teacher, very patient with her students and never antagonistic towards them.

Mr. Laureha 5th grade teacher, had a toupee but was a good male role model. He was kinda like Jimmy Carter in a way.

Mr. Tata 6th grade business teacher, helped me understand commerce and the labor market more than he could ever now.

Mrs. Ball 7th grade science, I had developed a crush on her, and I found that if I actually paid attention to what was being taught my grade would improve, and it did. But she also was more in tune with her students because she was younger and wasn't the nerdy type.

Mr. Siefert 8th grade science, was really into what he was teaching and had a real concern about student learning. I thought he was an absolute dork at the time, but he never gave up on his students even if they failed his class multiple times.

Mr. Martin high school drama, eccentric as hell, but I liked him and he knew his stuff. He thought I had potential to be a good actor. His eccentricities sadly got him fired.
  Mr. Martin: "Please, students do not touch the curtains-- the oils from your hand will wear holes in them!"
  Me: "I have a question."
  Mr. Martin: "Yes what is it?"
  Me: "So like if I placed my hand against the curtain for a long time, will it leave a hole shaped like my hand?"
  Mr. Martin: "For love of God, do not try it!"

Mrs. Goodrich high school English-- let me write about any damn thing, let me read a loud in any voice I chose, and knew how to handle me when I was being a pain in the ass.
 Me: "Some stupid comment, meant to annoy the teacher"
 Her: "That's nice, not really that appropriate-- now more on what we're learning"

Mr. Kern college history-- outstanding, was much more knowledgeable than the book. Encouraged class room discussion, you could debate him too-- he'd always win. He taught history with a moral lesson.

Mrs. Connally-- Intro to Sociology, was kinda like a friend. That's not to say I didn't take her class seriously. Matter a fact I loved all my Sociology professors.

Mr. Gasink-- the conservative environmental economics teacher, his class could kick your ass. You had to stay on top of it. He was very humorous. I got much better at math because I took his course. He died while riding his bike, he's well missed.

Mr. Ford-- the radical economics teacher, he taught me it's okay to think outside the box. He offered other arguments to economic issues and problems as what is traditionally conceived as a conservative discipline. He seemed to be more human than most other professors. I don't understand how he was that radical... he never talked about how "everything will be great once we have socialism", nor did he advocate any revolutionary overthrow of the government by worker's soviets. He was very in tune with current issues and things that could be done about them today, instead of doing what most radicals are conceived to do, that is say " everything is BS bah, only when we radically transform society will everything work like it should".



Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Trevor on March 10, 2011, 05:03:53 AM
Most of my film students that come to the archives say that I missed my calling and should have been a teacher ~ once you get me started on SA films and the history of our industry there. Is. No. Stopping. me.  :wink:

I had one teacher in my life that never shot me down or said those magical words "You can't" to me ~ her name was Jeanette Burger, my lecturer here www.tut.ac.za (http://www.tut.ac.za) and she encouraged me in everything, my personal hassles notwithstanding. It would always tickle her that I would call her "Ma'am" but I did respect her.

She passed away very young ~ I think she was only in her early 40s ~ but once a year, I take flowers to her grave and I tell her what's going on in my life. There is a lot that she would be proud of in me and also maybe have a few facepalm moments over stupid sh*t that I got and get up to.   :teddyr:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Jack on March 10, 2011, 08:19:18 AM
Elementary school teacher, Miss Schrandt.  She was just really nice and loved children. 

Had some good professors in college, especially my calculus professor Dr. Jarvinen, he was an honest-to-goodness rocket scientist who also worked for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.  He'd use that stuff for examples during class and I of course just ate it up.

Always liked my Political Science professor too, he was a robust guy who'd often go off on the most entertaining tangents.  He may have had a drinking problem  :teddyr:  I think I aced every one of his exams. 


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Mr. DS on March 10, 2011, 08:55:30 AM
My 11th grade Englsih teacher simply because I would sleep the whole class and she didn't give a sh!t.  

My art teacher who was very nice to me and down to earth.  She honestly put up with a lot of crap from me at times (I was an angry youth) and I feel bad about it seeing she never kicked me out of class.

Know whats funny about this thread, the more I try to think of "good" teachers, the less I come up with.  However, I have no problem zeroing in on the ones I hated. I guess thats a pretty bad thing.   :bluesad:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Newt on March 10, 2011, 09:06:28 AM
Know whats funny about this thread, the more I try to think of "good" teachers, the less I come up with.  However, I have no problem zeroing in on the ones I hated. I guess thats a pretty bad thing.   :bluesad:

One of the saddest aspects of human nature: the negative tends to stand out and stick with us while the good seems less significant and fades into the background. I'm sure it has 'survival value', but still it seems a shame.

The more I think about teachers I liked, the more I find to like.  The few who made me less than happy at the time seem a bit more understandable now; or at least, I find I can forgive them their limitations.  For the most part.   :wink:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Trevor on June 27, 2011, 01:24:13 AM
My 11th grade Englsih teacher simply because I would sleep the whole class and she didn't give a sh!t.  

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :thumbup:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Sleepyskull on June 27, 2011, 01:41:06 AM
My 11th grade Englsih teacher simply because I would sleep the whole class and she didn't give a sh!t.  


Maybe she thought: "Thank God, he finally shut up!"  :wink: I'm only saying this because I've had teachers who I'm sure would have loved for me to just suddenly be asleep at times.


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Criswell on June 27, 2011, 01:57:52 AM
My 4th grade teacher, who's name was Ms. Boring. Really opened my eyes toward technology. She is also likely one of the reasons why I want to work as a filmmaker in some way.

In class for a few days we got to use cameras and make a short film with a group. We even got to edit it and add music. I wish I still had that tape.

My 8th grade history teacher is also a great man. Who I got to know even after Middle School. Haven't seen him in a long time though.

Thats really all I can think of. I've only had one good teacher in high school that has really stood out too me. Sure Their have been other good ones, but none that stand out.


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: WilliamWeird1313 on June 27, 2011, 02:02:08 AM

There were very few teachers I disliked to a noteworthy degree, but also very few I especially LIKED to a noteworthy degree. Up until college, I rarely had many teachers who really seemed to be into the subjects they taught, so many of them came off as just interchangeable workhorses reading out of textbooks. What's I got into college, I started meeting teachers left and write who I'd say I really, really, genuinely liked. Ranking highest among them would definitely be Andy Petonak and Ed Ackerman, the dual heads of the Journalism department at the college I just graduated from, and a guy whose name is escaping right now but who taught literally every single Philosophy course at the same college and was a complete nutcase (in a good way), totally weird, totally cool, totally fun.

Before college, the only teachers that ever stood out from the pack for me where my English teacher for my freshman year in high school, Mr. Budnick, who was also the head of the Creative Writing club, of which my nerdy self was a member. In general, a likeable, somewhat awkward, but extremely helpful, fairly nondescript guy.

Then there was my English teacher from my Senior year. I actually turned down the chance to take the Advanced English class in order to take HIS English class, because I knew what a cool guy he was. Completely different from every other teacher there, a witty, wacky, musclebound dude with a zig-zag pattern shaved into his beard, who met the faculty dress code of collared shirts and ties by wearing untucked polo shirts with clip-on bow ties. Defiitely the odd man out, I heard he lost his job just 1 or 2 years after I graduated. Bummer. B.S. rumors (high school, whaddya want?) spread saying it was because he slept with students and did heroin. B.S. He was one of the few teachers I actually kept in touch with for a while after leaving school, but I lost track of him when he moved out of state a few years ago. Cool guy. Coolest thing about him, beside the zig-zag beard and clip-on bow tie, was that he knew his stuff and was genuinely passionate about English and Literature. I remember he had the ENTIRETY of Beowulf memorized... in Old English. You ever see Old English? Ever try to read it? Ever try to speak it? Ever try to understand someone else speaking it? It's nuts! People think Old English is Shakespeare-type stuff, but it's not. Shakespeare's English is actually Modern English, just a highly floral variation of it. Old English is like a WHOLE 'nother language.

His name was Mr. Benson. And he was AWESOME.

Other than that, no teachers of note (except for one who I think was my 6th grade teacher, who I had a crush on... BAAAABE!).


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: claws on June 27, 2011, 03:24:31 AM
The only teacher I liked was our English teacher. I went to a German school and they taught us British-English. We would clash (in a funny way) ever so often because I spoke American.
Her name was Mrs. Wallisch-Prince. Very sweet person. She would bring home made English muffins and other baked goods to class ever so often.
On the down side she would also bring her guitar, and we had to sing English folk songs  :bluesad:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Trevor on June 27, 2011, 03:29:02 AM
On the down side she would also bring her guitar, and we had to sing English folk songs  :bluesad:

Those couldn't have been as bad as the folk songs Andrew described in his review of Billy Jack ~ man, were those bad!

We're a rainbow
Made of children
We're an army
Singin' songs...


 :buggedout: :buggedout:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: claws on June 27, 2011, 03:44:48 AM

Those couldn't have been as bad as the folk songs Andrew described in his review of Billy Jack ~ man, were those bad!

We're a rainbow
Made of children
We're an army
Singin' songs...


 :buggedout: :buggedout:

 :buggedout:

I'm not even sure if it was a folk song or from England, but it was one of her faves:

Go tell it on the mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere,
Go tell it on the mountain,
Our Jesus Christ is born.

My school buddy and I would always sing with a very high pitched voice, trying to make each other laugh.
By the end of the song we were both in tears from laughter  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: venomx on June 27, 2011, 04:22:22 AM
All I can remember was my 4th grade Math Teacher was hot... she was young 23, 24. :thumbup:

So... I liked her.

(http://www.vh1.com/shared/promoimages/bands/v/van_halen/hot_for_teacher/320x240.jpg)


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: WilliamWeird1313 on June 27, 2011, 04:24:22 AM



I'm not even sure if it was a folk song or from England, but it was one of her faves:

Go tell it on the mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere,
Go tell it on the mountain,
Our Jesus Christ is born.

My school buddy and I would always sing with a very high pitched voice, trying to make each other laugh.
By the end of the song we were both in tears from laughter  :teddyr:

I had to sing that same song back in elementary school. From kindergarten through 8th grade I was stuck in Catholic school. Ugh. Church every week, and lots of hymns and crap. Is it any wonder I'm now an atheist?



Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: The Burgomaster on June 29, 2011, 05:34:14 PM

* My 4th grade English/Science teacher.  He was just an all-around great guy and encouraged my creative side.  I used to love writing short stories and he gave me lots of compliments and told me to keep writing.  I wonder where he is now?


And . . . I found him on Facebook.  He recently retired from teaching.  Looks pretty much the same as he did in the 1970s, except now he has gray hair and no mustache.



Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: HappyGilmore on June 29, 2011, 08:07:24 PM
Elementary school- no teacher that I liked.  Primarily cause the b***h kept promoting to the next class I was in only cause her son was in my class.  And we didn't like each other at all.  I wasn't friends with her son, and her oldest son dated my aunt when she taught my aunt, and my aunt broke up with her son.  I got plenty of detentions and whatnot while being her student.  But, one thing she couldn't say about me was that I was a bad student.  I barely went to school, never paid attention in class, and my copybooks consisted primarily of drawings I did.  Yet, every test she gave me: I passed with flying colors.  She couldn't believe it.

High School:
9th Grade- A teacher named Mr. Russo.  Cool guy.  I was placed in all the advanced classes, but didn't want them as I was lazy, not cause I couldn't comprehend the material.  We butted heads a few times, but by the end of the year, were pretty close.  He taught history.
10th Grade- Mr. Udovich and Mr. Cifuni.  I took sociology and psychology in high school.  Both were great guys.  And I was the youngest kid in their class.
11 and 12 grades- No particular teacher sticks out.  I liked a few but they're a blur.

Sidenote: 9th grade English.  Had Mr. Donahue.  Nice guy, funny, a little tough, but expected big things out of you.  He was a little disappointed I had to miss several classes at one point cause I was ordered by the guidance counseler to seek "in school therapy/counseling" for issues they believed I had. :buggedout:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on July 06, 2011, 02:28:12 PM
Her name was Margaret Irby Nichols.

After she graduated from what is now the University of North Texas with a B.A. in 1945, then from the University of Texas in Austin with a MLS, she spent 10 years in the library field.

Before returning to UNT to teach, beginning in 1955, where she taught for 41 years, retiring in 1996 as Professor Emerita.

The number of students she taught is in the hundreds. One of them was myself.

This is in addition to doing over 400 workshops and writing dozens of articles and books, during her career.

I see she is still alive and kicking, as according to the newest issue of the university magazine, she was awarded the Outstanding Alumna Service Award for this year.

And she still looks good for a woman who is in her late 80's. She looks so good. She may actually outlive me. Though, she has thirty years on me.

Here's to her.


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Trevor on July 30, 2014, 01:26:08 AM
My favorite fictional teacher: one we wish we all had.  :thumbup:

(http://www.nndb.com/people/259/000030169/william-daniels-9-sized.jpg)

Give it up for Mr Feeny!  :smile:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Archivist on July 30, 2014, 05:54:34 AM
At first thought, there were few teachers I disliked at school, although as I consider it, the ones I didn't like were usually the sports teachers who only barely tolerated the geeky kid who was always reading dictionaries and encyclopedias and skipping phys. ed.

I liked most of my teachers, but the ones who stand out to me are my English teacher and Maths teacher in high school.

My first encounter with my favourite English teacher was in Year 8.  I had been working hard at my writing for a few years beforehand, and he encouraged my writing and made detailed notes and critiques of all my work.  He was a wonderful fellow, showing us movies like Monty Python and the Holy Grail and getting me to read the part of the political peasant in the King Arthur 'King of the Britons' scene.

Each year I tried to get back into the class he was teaching, and in the years that I was not with him, I showed him my work and he was happy to mark and critique it as if I was in his class.  We even kept in touch after I finished school, and I continued to bring my writing to him for a few years.  I'll always remember him as a true mentor, for his generosity and friendship.

Throughout my time at school I struggled desperately with mathematics.  Nothing really made sense, and my family were aghast at my numerical ineptitude.  As a result I was always in the dunce class for maths at each year level, until Year 9.  My teacher for that year had this remarkable knack for explaining the concepts in a way that finally made sense, and I don't know exactly how it happened, either.  Suddenly, the incomprehensible squiggles resolved themselves into equations, and I shot ahead of the dunce class.  After a couple of  months I was moved out of the dunce class and into a higher level.

He was also my maths teacher in my final year at school, and he made a point of talking about how I had been in the lowest maths group in year 9, but had made it all the way through to maths in the final year, and what an accomplishment that was.  I owed much to him, and he is another I will always remember.


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Trevor on July 30, 2014, 07:02:49 AM
I owed much to him, and he is another I will always remember.

That's how I will always remember my college teacher Jeanette Burger (or Ma'am, as I used to call her to her amusement): she had a very troubled student in me but she never gave up on me and I never did and never have.  :smile:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: ER on July 30, 2014, 10:52:57 AM
I had a teacher in high school who should make both lists, like/hate.

He was cool, smart, just out of college, and always funny in a non-silly way. Knew every cultural reference, had seen every movie on earth worth seeing, everybody was glad to be in his class. Well, I was taking this basic science course of his in 12th grade that I just got placed in to fill out my schedule my last semester, I already was accepted into a college, had enough credits to graduate, I think everyone else in the class was in 9th grade, and he assigned us a day to go gather fossils at this eroding cliff near the school. I didn't want to, so I skipped and bought a bag of fossils from a museum gift shop giving the impression I'd, ahem, gathered them. I turned them in and he instantly busted me because instead of being local these fossils came from all over the world.

The for rest of the year he'd kid the 9th graders that I was a great role model because I was willing to go all the way to India and Africa to get my fossils for class. "That's devotion!" he'd say.

Yeah, great guy....except I happen to know he kinda sorta took advantage of a vulnerable sixteen-year-old, so.... he also makes the bad list. And he's still teaching today!


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: alandhopewell on July 30, 2014, 03:40:29 PM
     I genuinely liked most of my teachers through the years, but there are some who stand out....

     MR. ROGERS- Taught General Science, 7th Grade; my mother and her sibs had had him when they went to school.
The first day of class, he walks in, holding the science book in his hand. He holds it up, and says, "This is the textbook for General Science, 7th Grade." Then, he opens his desk drawer, drops the book in, closes the drawer, and says, "We may refer to it from time to time."

     He starts talking, about the Egyptian Pyramids, finishes up forty-five minutes later with the Apollo missions (number eight was do to launch in a few months), this monologue is interspersed with questions about what he's just said, what's in the news, whatever, and IT'S ALL CONNECTED. All his sessions were like this. He did fail me, because although I was aces at answering oral queries and taking tests, I refused to keep a notebook or do homework.

     Until his death eighteen years later, I'd periodically visit him; they'd forced him to retire the year after I repeated his class.

     MISS DARCY- Taught Junior English. She made the subject interesting, and she didn't label me as a "troublemaker" the way the Principal and most of the other teachers did.... I was bored, disillusioned, and seventeen in '73.


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: HappyGilmore on July 30, 2014, 08:00:19 PM
My high school Sociology teacher was great.  I also shouldn't have been in his class.  It was for seniors and I wasn't a senior. 

My 10th grade Psychology teacher was fun, too.  Although, as a kid who was relatively 'advanced' I tended to get bored and distracted easily.  He once yelled at me for being a distraction and said he wanted me to go to the principal's office.  I promptly reminded him that he WAS the principal and if I went to his office I'd have nothing to do for the next 40 minutes, and that I'd be late to the next class and I'd be re-sent to his office and he should just yell at me in the hallway.   :bouncegiggle:

My 11th grade English teacher was a fan of Weird Al and Nosferatu, so we'd occasionally talk about that.  Her first assignment was reading a book (Scarlet Letter).  I tried to get out of doing the book report as I'd read the book a few years prior in junior high and instead just have a brief discussion with her about the book after class as my 'book report.'  She said unfortunately the rules of the school required some kind of work handed in and I ended up doing a book report on a book about Don Martin, the MAD magazine cartoonist.  Still not sure how handing in a book report on a book not actually assigned got me an A but I was happy about that.

My law teacher in 10th grade was a great guy.  Still not sure why I had that class.  It was a class for seniors going to college to be lawyers, and I'm a punk kid listening to Weird Al.  But my guidance counselor put me there.  But my notebook was one of the better kept all year, so much so he kept it to use the following year.   :twirl:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Trevor on July 31, 2014, 01:01:44 AM
My 10th grade Psychology teacher was fun, too.  Although, as a kid who was relatively 'advanced' I tended to get bored and distracted easily.  He once yelled at me for being a distraction and said he wanted me to go to the principal's office.  I promptly reminded him that he WAS the principal and if I went to his office I'd have nothing to do for the next 40 minutes, and that I'd be late to the next class and I'd be re-sent to his office and he should just yell at me in the hallway.   :bouncegiggle:

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

I needed that laugh this morning: karma!  :thumbup: :thumbup:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Trevor on July 31, 2014, 01:04:24 AM
MR. ROGERS- Taught General Science, 7th Grade; my mother and her sibs had had him when they went to school.
The first day of class, he walks in, holding the science book in his hand. He holds it up, and says, "This is the textbook for General Science, 7th Grade." Then, he opens his desk drawer, drops the book in, closes the drawer, and says, "We may refer to it from time to time."

 :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

I think I'm feeling better now.  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Trevor on March 18, 2016, 02:23:22 AM
My two favourite fictional teachers:

(http://screenmusings.org/movie/dvd/To-Sir-With-Love/images/To-Sir-With-Love-095.jpg)

Sidney Poitier in To Sir, With Love


(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LUewxOm3ztU/hqdefault.jpg)

Nick Nolte in Teachers


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: Trevor on March 18, 2016, 02:24:25 AM
*Slaps self* I just remembered that Sidney Poitier's character is based on a real teacher.


Title: Re: Teachers you LIKE/LIKED
Post by: A_Dubya on April 02, 2016, 06:02:46 PM
Mrs. Kalisz. My science teacher who had an ass that belonged in a rap video. You could put a plate on that thing. We had a very good relationship, and I always did well in her courses. Didn't hurt having some eye candy every morning in high school.