Things You Remember Most About Your Teachers

@magallon (19280)
Philippines
August 1, 2016 3:19am CST
What are the things you remember most about your teachers? Is it their caring attitude? Is it the attention you get? It can be the lessons you learned. Or the motivations you received. Teachers are hard to forget. They are the students' second parents. They teach with a heart. They accept every student with open arms. Do you still remember your teachers? How did they made you as a person? Do you consider them influential? Or someone who made you feel important? Photo credit: cliparts.com
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
I can't forget my old English teacher in the honor section in college. She was an old-fashioned lady who disliked girls wearing their skirts above the knee. She was the best among 3 good teachers in English in college but I admired her humility. One time, we argued about the sentence sequence and coherence in a paragraph. I was alone in arguing with her with one classmate supporting me. The rest were with her. After 3 days of argument, she finally told the class that I was right and my classmates roared and clapped. She told us that it was not a matter of who won but of knowing what really was right. That incident made me admire her more.
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
@magallon That was nice of you not to feel slighted by the correction made by your student and it was nice of him too to make the correction discreetly. I really admire teachers who know how to accept it when they commit mistakes.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
@sunrisefan Teachers should also admit their mistakes. I always tell my students to read and have further readings of the lesson because not all that are taught by teachers are correct.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
Oh, that's nice. Your story made me remember something. I was also discussing something in my psychology class when one of my students called me and asked me politely to go with him to the library next room. He said for few minutes only. The reason was he ,wants to show me the correct pronunciation of a certain word.;; We looked for it in the dictionary and he was really correct. So when we returned to the class, I corrected the pronunciation and admitted that I pronounced it incorrectly.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
1 Aug 16
I appreciate my students for giving me a high grade.they treat me as their second mother.
So, at 2 o'clock this afternoon, I and my colleagues (part-time clinical instructors) went to school to get our envelops that contained the documents for our...
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
1 Aug 16
Wow ! Congratulations. That means they really appreciate you as their teacher and second mother.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
5 Aug 16
@magallon we teachers are the students' second parents and we must all uphold on to that
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
5 Aug 16
@ridingbet Yup, that's right.
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@annierose (19127)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
I think that my teachers in English were the persons that became very influential for me. I have been attracted to them and they were the only kind of teachers whom I think are very caring when it comes to what I was feeling. I just had female English teachers and they were all like my second mothers.
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@annierose (19127)
• Philippines
3 Aug 16
@magallon Yes and sometimes their models too.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
3 Aug 16
That's nice. Sometimes students look up more to their Teachers than to their parents.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
3 Aug 16
@annierose That's right.
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@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
2 Aug 16
It's such a long time since I was at school, but I remember we respected our teachers and would never dream of answering back or disobeying them.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
We belong to the generation where pupils or students really respect teachers. Nowadays, it's different.
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@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
2 Aug 16
@magallon Yes, I'm horrified sometimes to read how pupils act up in the classroom - some teachers are even afraid of them. Btw - I'm a couple of generations ahead of you I think
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
@jaboUK I am 50 now, so I also experienced those days; n school where we really have to respect our teachers and not answer back when scolded.
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@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
1 Aug 16
I had this prof who pronounced 'literature' as 'electric chair'. Worth remembering.
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@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
@magallon That's why I got very low scores in her spelling test. lol
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
@sol_cee that's funny. Did you try to correct your teacher? Like telling her that she pronounced the word incorrectly?
@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
electric chair is so much different from literature.
@Hannihar (129493)
• Israel
21 Nov 17
I have two teachers I want to talk about here. My Math teacher made sure I got the math award. He encouraged me, and we became friends and hung out together in my older years. He was a very kind person. My English teacher taught us about words and what they meant by having us write sentences with them. She cared about us wanting to learn. It is hard to have teachers that care.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
They are the kind of teachers who are dedicated to their work. they clearly know their role as teacher to their students. those kind of teachers are admirable and worth remembering.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
@Hannihar I hope that my students also remember me as caring and motivating... I hope that they will not forget what I have taught them..
@Hannihar (129493)
• Israel
22 Nov 17
@magallon So so true Cristy.
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@Genipher (5405)
• United States
1 Aug 16
I'll never forget my middle school English teacher, Mrs. N. The first time I met her was 6th grade. I was in a new school and completely lost. I was trying to find my home room and asked Mrs. N, who was standing in the hall, where the room was. "Turn around and keep walking. When you can't find it, cry." she said. Needless to say, I found someone else to help me, only to find that Mrs. N was the teacher for MY home room class! She was also my English teacher. I grew to love her, despite that mean beginning. She was strict but could be led off-topic if we asked about her traveling adventures. Whenever we asked how old she was, she'd tell us, "I'm 112" or "201". She told me I wrote well and that if I ever got a book published, I had to dedicate it to her. I promised I would. Now if I can just write a book...! She was my all-time favorite teacher. My worst teacher was Mrs. G. She was also an English teacher. She let the kids in class do whatever they wanted. Since we were on the second floor, students would often "accidentally" drop their pencils out the open window and then ask to go fetch them. And,of course, Mrs. G would let them. I had no respect for that woman.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
1 Aug 16
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your story. The favorite and the not favorite are actually those that we never forget. Its the same with the teachers too. They could not forget those students who are the most active and the least active. Or those who are the most quiet and the noisiest.
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
3 Aug 16
I have one Teacher who always want me to seat in front of her. She always call me and want me to read our text book. For the whole year, I sat in front of her. Too late for me to know that she is pregnant with her first baby. lol. I wonder how her baby look like.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
4 Aug 16
Her baby may be your look - a - like.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
4 Aug 16
@JustBhem Maybe the baby got moles too but in different location..
@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
4 Aug 16
@magallon Haha. i hope the bany don't have moles like me. lol
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@Raj7779 (3657)
• Canada
1 Aug 16
Yes i remember many times my teachers.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
Do you remember all of them or only those Who became your favorites?
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
@Raj7779 nope I haven't seen my college professors for so .many years now
@Raj7779 (3657)
• Canada
2 Aug 16
@magallon yes,i meet them at every teacher's day. Do you meet them???
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@hyeriem (124)
• Jakarta, Indonesia
1 Aug 16
I remembered them for their attitude, friendly faces, great knowledge, nice motivation and so on. But i didnt remember some of my teachers faces anymore. So when i met them nowadays it get me thought to say hi. Because i keep considerate, do i know this person? Lol
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
2 Aug 16
That is because of the years that gone by. We really experience forgetting sometimes.
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@magallon (19280)
• Philippines
3 Aug 16
@hyeriem And they won't recognize you either because you also changed.
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@hyeriem (124)
• Jakarta, Indonesia
2 Aug 16
@magallon yeah. And i getting confused because their face is changed so much. Especially for the younger teacher when i was in school. Now they're getting old
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