The most memorable teachers you've ever had

I don't really get on well with teachers, but Mr. Collum in 8th grade. He was my history teacher in NY and he would get so excited about teaching us about the Civil War, he really made me interested. He was great...

<font color ="maroon">Fallen Angel</font> wrote:

geeksandgeeks wrote:

Let's think back either a few years or quite a few years, depending on how old we are, and take a few moments to remember the dedicated educators who made an impression on us, either by being the best teachers we ever had or by kicking us in the shins.

This can be any kind of memorable teacher, just entertain me.

My best teachers were Mr. Evert (geometry), Mrs. Carr (first-year higher math), Mrs. Paxton (choir) Mr. Durham (choir - he was one of the shin-kickers, but still a great guy), Mr. Weinrich (US history), and several of my middle-aged female eighth grade teachers whom I believe were clones of each other.

There has also been Mrs. Daniel (algebra), memorable mainly because she made me hate math. Also Frau Zins (German - no shit) memorable because I once got a final grade of 119.6% in her class - she was pretty good, though. Don't even get me started on my gym teacher.

You?

you know, mrs. carr works at prp now :-P


hmm... my favorite teachers were Mrs. Routin (4th grade), Mr. Grider (elementary computer teacher/quick recall coach/STLP organizer), Mrs. Paxton (choir), and Mr. Conkin (6th grade science)

:-( i miss them...
i kinda liked Mr. Clites too... he let me make up all the work i missed for the 2nd semester :-)

my least favorite teachers... oh god...
Mrs. Rundell (5th grade)
Mrs. Warner (6th grade reading)
Mrs. Hengartner (7th grade science)
i didn't really like Mrs. Pollock either... she yelled at me alot... :-(

actually... they all yelled at me and said that i wasn't trying... -_- damn

You gotta be kidding me...you LIKED Mr. Clites? He bored me to fricking tears.

I failed miserably at school, I left with no qualifications at all. A few years ago I decided to go to college to do a night class. I chose to do my worst subject at school, maths. My teacher was a Mr Rashid, his method of teaching was so different from anything I can remember from my school days. He used to start the lesson with ten minutes of meditation, it seemed bizarre at the time, but after awhile, when you got used to it, you began to realise what he was trying to do for you, to clear your mind so you were ready to absorb all this new information. Also he never told anyone that they were wrong, when you clearly were. His reply would be along the lines of, "thats interesting, now lets see how you came to that conclusion" and subsequently he would allow you to realise your own mistake and so correct it.
Anyway through him I passed my maths, and later went on to study english and Im now studying spanish. And apart from my parents, I have learnt more from him than anyone else Ive ever known.

well mandy, mr. clites let me make up my work so that i didn't FAIL 7th grade, which i was really close to doing. i never told you my grades, did i?
i got 2 fucking U's dammit! (pollock and sullivan)
i'm so glad i take homeschool now -_-

My 6th grade history teacher, Mr. Lee. It was so incredibly easy to get him sidetracked; he once spent an entire class period talking about how he was going to cook a lobster for dinner that night.

Ooh, I love lobster!

I love lobster, too, but I'd rather not hear about it screaming when you drop it into the pot!

heh, Mr. Thompson (it's funny, even though I'm out of school I still respect him enough to call him Mr. Thompson instead of Greg) was my history/English teacher and instead of directing insulting/pointing out a mistake he would degrade you so much as to not have you make a mistake again. Great stuff.

Also Mr. Kelly our Information Technology teacher..he didn't give a damn what we did.

Me: Mr. Kelly, we burnt down the school! And lit the world on fire.
Mr K: Meh.