Who was your worst teacher?Follow

There are 16 staff that have "first lady" in their title, indicating they are responsible to the first lady directly. Under laura bush there were 16 positions with "first lady" in their title. Looking at their salaries and titles, they are almost exactly the same.

Edited, Jan 6th 2010 5:24pm by Xsarus

I'm not terribly interested in varus's fall into non sequitur.

What in the blue fuCk are you talking about??

"Bloviating" would also be accepted.

I think it's closer to verbal diarrhea than actual words.

It makes me think of a cow talking. I don't know why, exactly.

I ran into both my best and worst teachers while attending Nuclear Power School in the Navy.

The worst taught Electrical Theory, which having just finished Electrician's school posed no great challenges to me. However, the guy that taught the course, a ginger haired, mousy little man with a wispy mustache whose teaching method consisted of standing at the board with his back to the class reading out of the textbook in a soft, effeminate monotone. We called him Lieutenant Sominex because he made you drowsy so you could fall asleep.

The best was another Lieutenant, but cut from entirely different cloth than the first. He was born in Poland, walked overland to Germany at the age of 15, escaped into West Berlin, and by the time he was 17 had emigrated to the States. He joined the Navy, and served two combat tours in Vietnam as a SEAL, then came back to the states, got an engineering degree, went to Officer's Candidate School, and when I knew him, was teaching Reactor Principles. It was generally considered to be the toughest course in the toughest school the Navy had, but he was such an engaging, enthusiastic teacher, that I easily breezed through it with a 3.94. In contrast, I barely passed the Electrical course taught by Lt. Sominex even though it was material I had already covered.

Back to the OP:

Best teacher: Stuart Hall taught me Latin & French. He told me "My thoughts are mine. I'll share them with you, but don't confuse them with your own". My first A+ essay was one denouncing his opinions on Camus & Sartre.

Worst teacher: Anne Bass. "You don't get mathematics - Face facts - you're just not a thinker" She decided I was thick and treated me accordingly. When she was diagnosed with cancer and replaced by an interim teacher, I went from bottom of the "good with their hands" class to top of the year. Mrs Bass recovered and on her return tried to overturn my results. I called her a cUnt. I was suspended. At my appeal, Stuart Hall was appointed adjudicator. His conclusion was that she was, indeed, a cUnt.

Soooo long ago

I'm friends with my best teacher on Facebook, and her husband and kids. She was my high-school drama teacher. LOVE her.

As for the worst teacher, I'd probably have to go with some of the grad students I had as teachers in university. That was some dull ******

Must be something about arts teachers. My best teacher (in fact, he won the state Teacher of the Year award while I was his student, and I wrote one of the letters of testimony/recommendation for that award when he was nominated) was my choir director, who is now a friend on Facebook as well. So is the director of the spring musicals I was in my sophomore to senior years and three of his kids (when his eldest was also in the show we did my senior year because we needed a child for the part, the kid and I bonded and after high school I became an honorary member of their family.)

Your teacher was a moron.