Thursday Cafe, January 3rd

[EZ Writer]

I remember many of my teachers, some very fondly.
My kindergarten teacher did magic tricks and played the guitar. I thought she was as wonderful as (maybe more than) my mom.
My fifth grade teacher hated me; I hated her.
My Old English professor was as old and grumpy as the language.
These days, I assist and watch an art teacher, twice a month, as she interacts with a group of special needs adults, among them my son. This art teacher coaxes masterpieces out of them!
Then there are the numerous teachers I've had crushes on

 

[Witty_Sarcasm]

Hmm let's see...my kindergarten teacher was a dumb bitch. :P I was in her class for a month and she decided that I was an idiot and she hated me. So she had to be one of my worst. And then my 8th grade teacher would make fun of me...he was an ass.
One of my weirdest was my 5th grade teacher. She was always just being wacky. And my social studies teacher in high school was a nice guy but a bit odd. He talked about eating monkey brains back in Nam. :oops:
My greatest teacher was my first grade teacher. She was so kind and caring and unfortunately died of cancer several years back. My 4th grade teacher was also nice, she would give the students gifts and encouraging messages.

 

[Baywasp]

My most influential teacher was my high school psychology teacher, even though I didn't have her until my senior year. She influenced my love of psychology (and rats because she assigned a project where we kept and trained rats.) I remember all of my elementary teachers, and then some from middle and high school where we started having different teachers for all subjects. I had two of my high school teachers three times, which doesn't normally happen. My math teacher for freshman, junior, and senior year I didn't like as much. One time I started having a coughing issue in class and she got mad at me for coughing so much. I did like the social studies teacher I had the first three years of high school, but we debated a lot. We disagreed about politics and hockey, among other things. It really puzzled me when, years after I had graduated, I read about how he had been arrested for solicitation of prostitution in an undercover sting. He seemed to be very happily married, at least when I knew him. I didn't think someone like him would do that. But I guess it just goes to show you never really know.

 

[Nick]

What an interesting question. I had a philosophy professor that has always stuck in my mind. He was a bit eccentric in his teaching style. I remember the first class of his I took. It was about 2-3 weeks into the class when he asked me to schedule a time for us to chat. I couldn't figure out what I had done to draw this attention. In the meeting he told me that most of the time his goal was to get students to think even slightly outside the box. He said I was different. His goal for me was to think ever so slightly inside the box. He told me I was so outside the norm in my thinking that if I couldn't learn to think inside the box I would never be understood. He also asked for a copy of my first book. I never wrote the book. I seriously struggle to be understood. Very smart man.