Who was your most influential teacher? Why?
It’s been a long time since I was at school but five teachers immediately came to mind when I read this question. Three nice ones, two atrocious, one might say, monsters. The temptation is to pick one of the nice ones, but I think the beastly ones were a great deal more influential and, luckily, their influence was positive. Though I didn’t think so at the time. One was my class teacher in primary 2, when I was six; the second was my maths teacher in secondary 1.
I wrote about them in a blog post years ago, in response to a meme. No point writing the same thing again, so you can read the whole post here, should you wish, or here’s a screenshot of the pertinent paragraphs:
I should say, the kidney reference will make absolutely no sense in this context, so just ignore it, or go and read the whole post if ignoring it isn’t an option.
Eryl Gasper-Dick, still curious 
We have known each other a long time on these blogs.
This time round I will say that I’m horrified that your Birthday Barbie was stolen, and ruined. I want to slap the thief. And I badly want to punch Mr Steer.
As for people thinking I’m stupid because of my appearance, or accent – well, I guess I can use that to my advantage!!
Sxx
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We have indeed, I was quite surprised by the date of that post. Though, I knew I hadn’t posted on that blog for ten years, so I don’t know why.
Exactly, their prejudice, their weakness! X
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Good 👍
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I suppose most of us endured some horrid teachers. Certainly, in the years just after the war (WWII), at a small town in scrubby tussock land, we had very old, sometimes out of retirement teachers and very young shiny-new teachers. And every one of them strap-happy. A few were very nice. Corporal punishment in schools was only banned quite recently.
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I’m told by some of the people we know who trained as teachers in the seventies that there used to be special strap shops, and they were all required to use them.
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Barbaric!
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