What Were Your Teachers Like At School ?

[Illaveago]

We had a good physics teacher . He was Irish with a thick accent . He was short with ginger hair moustache and beard a bit like a gnome .
He had strange ideas about the kids which sat at the back of the classroom were not worth bothering with . It was just a simple process of whoever got out of the previous class first got to the next lesson ahead of the rest .
He had some favourite sayings which we used to amuse ourselves with trying to copy his accent .
"You're nothing but a Waster laddie ! "
"You little Thickie ".
" I don't give a hoot !"
He was given the nickname "Hoot ".

 

[BoldonLad]

Don’t know if there are any teachers posting on, or, following this thread, but, the number of allegedly incompetent teachers, recalled, makes me think, thank god for Ofsted.

 

[Mo1959]

*ouch*

Sounds like the belt equivalent of a cat-o-nine-tails

I had it a few times.

 

[stephec]

I had it a few times.

You could make a fortune if you had one now. 😂

 

[Chris S]

Our headmaster was known as 'the Phyllis' because he had allegedly caught syphilis.

 

[Electric_Andy]

We had some old school teachers who had loads of character and tended to be quite strict. Then we had a huge influx of younger teachers, most were really good but we had a few who could not control a class and often lost their sh1t. We had a crazy RE teacher who had the class eating out of his hand for the entire lesson. He was superb

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I don't know, I didn't know them then.

 

[slowmotion]

I was very lucky. None of my teachers were out and out sadists. Some were pretty useless, ( as I was at certain subjects ) but they had good intentions. Some were exceptionally good at giving me a curiosity about subjects that still fascinate me.

Overall: 9 out of 10.....
.....and thanks.

 

[Time Waster]

Probably the place I was thinking. There was a museum about them because no longer made there. Cane, riding crop, various types of whips.

What was commonly known as the cane could have also been a leather based stick not unlike a riding crop. I never got to find out which our school had but it was rarely used except on this one lad who was troubled you could say.

 

[mustang1]

Both of my maths teachers were excellent and my geography teacher (also my year head) was very good too. The science teachers were mostly good, I think they wanted to teach but weren't entirely good at it. French was very good. English was alright; social studies was not too reasonable and religious education was good too. Computing was good only if one wanted to learn otherwise teacher did not care much for those who didn't (luckily was the former type).

 

[Bazzer]

As I have said on another thread, if there is a hell, with a handful of exceptions, I hope most of them are in there.
Catholic spinsters beating your left hand until you were physically unable to hold a pen or pencil, to stop you from writing with it. Just because of being left handed - That took over 30 years and the birth of a daughter who is naturally left handed, to have confidence to use again. And even now there is the split second of "can I do this?"
Secondary school teachers, for whom the majority considered casual violence, as common as having a cough or blowing their noses.
The irony is I married a teacher as is one of my daughters.

 

[Brandane]

Computing was good

And the prize for youngest poster on this thread goes to....... 😄

 

[Illaveago]

And the prize for youngest poster on this thread goes to....... 😄

Computers were a thing on science fiction films in my school days and took up a whole room !

 

[Brandane]

Computers were a thing on science fiction films in my school days and took up a whole room !

I must be relatively young, as I had one of those new fangled electronic calculator things! The most basic functions, with red display, and cost me most of my birthday money in Dixon's, about 1975...

 

[Illaveago]

I must be relatively young, as I had one of those new fangled electronic calculator things! The most basic functions, with red display, and cost me most of my birthday money in Dixon's, about 1975...

Modern technology in those days !
I can remember my brother getting a digital watch . It had a dark red screen and illuminated numbers .