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Did you or your children have a teacher that inspired you with his/her enthusiasm for a subject?

I did have a junior school teacher who encouraged a love of reading, although I think I would have developed that on my own.

At my High School none of the teachers particularly inspired me, quite the opposite I'm afraid. There was one teacher who was inspiring in his enthusiasm for his subject though. His subject was art, which sadly was not my subject. But I know he was much loved and many pupils developed their love of art through him.

I can't say I had one but my daughter had a wonderful teacher in year 6 who took her on leaps and bounds by showing a bit of interest. :-D

I had several teachers who were enthusiastic about their subject but none inspired me to do anything other than to wish i was old enough to leave school and get a job.


Roy

A piece in the paper by Angelu Huth prompted this. She attended a private school in Malvery where it implied the teachers were not qualified but inspirational. One inspied/encouraged her to become a writer. I wondered if there were any in non private schools.

Back in the day we had several teachers who were very enthusiastic with the cane and they wasted no time using me and several of my mates as their practice dummy

not to mention that for minor infringements a good slap and on the odd occasion a punch in the face for good measure

oh Happy days

Roy

No i'm afraid that no teacher in junior or high school ever inspired me at all Ann .

Porkie Pie
We had a couple of teachers like that too, not that i ever had the cane/slipper
but some of the boys in my class did the teacher used to take them out into the corridor with their chair and oh boy did he used to whack them with the slipper they would come back in crying .

When my eldest son was at high school (differant school from me )
he was punched in the face by a teacher and his head hit the wall and he was knocked unconscious. I was called to the school to bring him home. when i found out what had happened OH went to the school and confronted the teacher who started grovelling ,anyway the teacher was suspened from school apparently he had hit other children before as well .

Seems like Angela Huth was very fortunate then.

Boys got the cane, Girls got the slipper in our school.

We had one that was so good with the cane when he gave it to you on the hand he could always catch you twice, once on the down stroke and again on the up stroke, He broke several of my knuckles.

I also have a scar on my leg from when i had the audacity to tell him to get lost because i was sick of getting the stick for no reason so he just lashed out and cut my leg wide open, Dad gave me another crack when i came home for back chatting a teacher,

I refused to cry :-D

As i said Happy days

Roy

Lol Ann i think she was :-D

What an interesting thread. I expected everyone to have a story of how their teacher was a leading light in some subject. The teacher who got me through my 11+ along with the other 49 children in his class was a taskmaster but the word inspirational doesn't come to mind.He taught us to time all the work we did for that one year, there was never any let up and certainly no speaking. We didn't know anything else.

I thought my music teacher at high school was brilliant but now as an adult I think her conveying of information was poor. There is so much I have learned after school which I now think could have been taught in a more enthusiastic way. Sadly for me the methods of teaching at high school didn't suit my personality as much as the 'nose to the grindstone' attitude of my teacher at junior school.

I was only hit once at school as I remember , for talking, but got enough at home to last a life time-jl

None of my teavhers ever inspired me at School. The best they thought I would get was a dead end job.


They were soooooo wrong :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D.


My Son had a fantasic teacher in year 3 who insired his love of Maths.

My Daughters GCSE music teacher (at a bog standard Comp) managed to get her class of 18 pupils through at grade C and above, not one failure which shows how good she was.
She was promoted at another School after that which was good for her but not the School.

We had the slipper/cane when I was at School. I was never in trouble, too scared of what my Mum would do, but the teachers were not slow at aiming the board rubber in all directions if anyone was talking.

Teresa

I think the interesting thing about the original article is the fact that all the inspirational teachers she talked about were not qualified teachers. She said the way they taught was, you studied what interested you. So where she wasn't interested in say Maths but was in English, she would be sent to the library in a Maths lesson to study English. Now I am not saying this was the correct way to do things but it certainly worked with her.

I didn't have any inspirational teachers rather the opposite. i had teacher in the Grammar School I went to in 1949 who made me quake in my shoes. The School had been a private one but was taken over as a State Grammar School so us 11 plus girls were accepted as students, The problem was they kept all the old staff who still had high expectations from the girls re money that the old fee paying parents had . They expected us to come up with cash for this and that just as the fee paying pupils had . I was the first of our extended family to get to Grammar School and my parents were so proud BUT I was very quickly diselusioned with the whole set up and that i was singled out , as was my best friend who later had a nervous breakdown from her treatment,

I was supposed to stay till I was 16 but jumped at the chance to leave at 15 when my elder bros went into the Forces for his National service and Mum needed me to go to work to cover his household contribution. I will always regret I didn't go further in the education BUT did join Unilever and made a good career for myself.

Its a sad thing that i have nothing but contempt really for at least one teacher who made my life a misery cos I came from a working class family that she didn't let me forget, her sneering voice still lives with me and thats 60 plus years later. :-(

I had a wonderful teacher in my last year at primary school.(56 yrs ago)Mr Bebbington was his name and he was ex army and was very strict but fair. he always insisted we were turned out as smart as possible and till this day I always check my shoes are clean before I go out. :-) not sure what else I learnt from him though but I always respected him. :-) :-)

How sad shirley and what a bad reflection on the leadership of the school. Presumably it was not viable any longer as a private paying school and had gone over to the state system reluctantly. No need to make the pupils suffer though.

In juniour school I had a teacher called Mr Newcombe he was lovley.....
He was very strict but a great teacher!!...I was a tiny tot in school and I wouldnt say I was bullied but because I was this tiny doll I tended to always be at the back, never heard, never seen, quiet as a mouse he noticed this and always made an effort to make sure I had my voice heard......He was a fantastic teacher, I will never forget his kindness, tolerance and love to teach no matter who it was, we as a class were always involved, often wonder what happened to him.....*sighs*....THANKYOU MR NEWCOMBE FOR LETTING ME BE SEEN AND HEARD..... :-D <3 I was never small in your eyes I was always standing tall, and proud :-D

I remember the headmaster at my junior school. Pop Lewis. He was into man management before the term was invented.

He always praised me to the hilt, making me feel I was the best pupil at the school. and something special. Probably he did that for the all the others in his fold, but I believed what he said and remember him with great affection.

Happy days

Mr Grimer, my English teacher when I was 13/14. He loved his subject and was a great teacher of it but nothing was off limits with him and he would often talk about other subjects, He had been with the RAF in WW2 and had 'life experience', and it showed in his teaching. He was great with everyone no matter who or what 'grade' they were, and put in time with those who needed a bit more individual help. Just a lovely man also.

Mr Taggart at primary school I remember with fondness for his love of poetry ( he taught maths, science and English) he was quite strict but very humourous and kind to me, the shy mouse lol, and introduced us to poetry and classical music and many 'random' interests besides.

Hello AnnInGlos,

I have a task to do by Susan1946857 ( i think) and that is pop in peoples threads and politely say hello!

So Here goes,,, How are you ? hope you are keeping well?
Hope you do not mind the intrusion.

by the way good thread!! sorry but i never had a fav school teacher.
Flo :-D :-)

At least there were some good teachers around then, good I am glad. Aw Mersey that is lovely.

Flo welcome, that Susan Wiv has a lot to answer for!!