Because this is the Teacher – Student connection

Who was your favorite high school teacher or college if you have one?
Teacher, Subject taught and why ………..

My English 3 and 4 teacher in high school. She is the best.

Brady Brady (Yes his parents actually gave him the same first name as their last name).

Guy was ex-marine sniper who was incredibly intelligent. He went to the same school at which he was teaching briefly. Guy was incredibly passionate about teaching AP Calc. He didn't care about whether we did any HW. As long as you did well on tests there was no HW to be done. If you started screwing up on tests, he made HW mandatory for those individuals. His system worked as mostly everyone got 5's, a few 4's and usually only one 3 on the AP test every year.

The actual class was great as any day not all of the class time was spent teaching as the subject matter didn't take all period to go over. Always a bunch of stories about how the school used to be, sometimes specifically about him and his rebellious youth. It was fun to hear the stories about the past that were still repeating themselves in the school at that time, some things never changed.

I liked him the most as I've always been against busy work (work for the sake of work). If you understand something or finish something early, then do it and move on.

Mrs. Letourneau taught me so much about life...I can never repay her.


First!

High School: the Biology I & II teacher. Pushed us to take vigorous notes in a 90-minute class, and gave unusually long exams, but he pushed his students to be good students, which I respected. He was also an excellent motivator and football coach, but equally skilled as an educator.

College: A professor with 7 doctorates who spoke 5 languages and also was the Dean of Students and Dean of Academics. He taught classes on religious philosophies and metaphysics. He had also spent three stints as a volunteer educator in Africa, from which he contracted Malaria each time. His last couple years, he served as a pastor of one of the largest Evangelical churches in Columbus (one of the most intellectually honest and respectable pastors I've known).

This was the man who sat with me and discussed worldviews, the conversations which eventually moved me to Christian monotheism.

RIP Dr. David Plaster

5th grade, student teacher. She wore loose fitting tops, every time time you asked a question she would come over and bend down. You could see right down her top. That year all the boys had a lot of questions will she was the student teacher. Probably would see more boob at the beach, but in 5th grade that was our titty bar.

On a side note to this.....

WHen you do run into your former teachers and coaches how do you address them?

I still call them pretty much what I didnt in school, Coach, Mr., Mrs., etc. Guess it is just a respect thing. I hear my step daugher always call the teachers by their first names. To me, that seems disrespectful.

I still refer to my favorite HS teacher by his nickname: "Greek."

Mr. Garvin, HS English teacher--he was a huge Edgar Allen Poe fan, and being an actor himself, would reinact Poe as he'd read his stories...very entertaining.

Chris Bullion was not only my favorite teacher, he was also my mentor, and later became one of my closest friends. He died at an early age two years ago, and the fact that his memorial service was attended by hundreds of his former students speaks volumes about the man.

brutus161;1233548 wrote:Chris Bullion was not only my favorite teacher, he was also my mentor, and later became one of my closest friends. He died at an early age two years ago, and the fact that his memorial service was attended by hundreds of his former students speaks volumes about the man.

This sounds almost like a mirror of my mentor, the aforementioned Dr. Plaster. He died from the John Cunningham virus at the age of 59. Between his two funerals, hundreds of students came from out of state to attend.

It's amazing when you meet someone who lives at that level as a human being.

Because I didn’t have a great high school attendance, interest in school and friendly experience in high school. I really can’t say I was not impressed with any of the teachers. Sport was the only thing that keep me coming back to school and that was the coaches pushing me. Coach Daniels was my favorite coach so Thank Coach Daniels.

However there was a teacher who I did not have in any of my classes (Home Economics) or really didn’t know her very well. She would always come to my defense behind the sense and support me. She understood what was going on, the difficulties I had learning, difficulties of my family and the conditions where I lived. I could never figure out why the interest in me or how she knew so much about me. Once I came to school on a Monday I had been in a fight that Sunday and my lip, eye and hand was badly swollen. She sent up to home room the school nurse to get me. When I graduated she sent me a short note to congratulate me. She wrote:
“One of the most misunderstood student, know one saw your strife, cared to know you and the potential within.” So to Miss Carmio (sp) I Thank you.

Because I was older than other students many of the relationship with the professors was on a friendship level or a hate level. So to that prick of a professor that taught Statistics crap. The reason you couldn&#8217;t get into you office once a week for nine weeks. Was because I would jam your door lock with a different master key at would change your tumblers. What the fucking bell curve of that mofo? </SPAN>
Also reason your car was towed from the teacher parking lot I switched the window tag from teacher to a fake student tag, called in the tow, ( those guy don&#8217;t care about checking plates just the window tags) once it got to the garage towing lot I switched it back. It was on my way back to my apartment and a friend worked at the garage took a short cut throw the lot, That for that &#8220;D&#8221; mofo.. lock your fucking door next time dumb ass&#8230; Do fuck with a returning Vietnam Vet &#8230; fraging was the next option</SPAN>

Mine happened by accident... I got in-school suspension in High School & spent 3 days with former Elida High School Men's Basketball Coach Chris Adams... Ever since then he was there when I needed someone, The school really messed up when they "forced" him to go & now he's the coach at UNOH