Remembering an artistic teacher

@JudyEv (381815)
Rockingham, Australia
February 8, 2026 1:16am CST
MyLotter Heather (@GardenGerty) wrote about a ‘Glow Day’ that the teachers organised for classes at her school. I don’t remember any glow days but I do remember one teacher who would cover one of her blackboards with the most beautiful drawings, usually a fairy-tale or nursery rhyme. In her hands, the coloured chalks created marvellous scenes and we’d peer in the windows watching her work. I was lucky to have pleasant teachers all through my schooling. Maybe some of it was to do with the fact that I never rocked the boat or misbehaved, apart from reading under the desk occasionally. The photo is mine of a school room in Nepal.
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@LadyDuck (502190)
• Italy
8 Feb
You were lucky, I cannot remember creative teachers, but I do remember very well BORING teachers. What a little cute and simple school room in your photo.
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@LadyDuck (502190)
• Italy
8 Feb
@JudyEv - When we are very young, often we cannot understand that not everything that sounds boring it is. I hated Latin lessons, only later I understood how useful Latin is to understand many words from different languages. So many English words come from Latin.
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Feb
@LadyDuck I didn't learn Latin but Vince's elder brothers did when they went to a Catholic boarding school.
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Feb
Mostly I had good teachers although I found some classes pretty boring. In one subject, we mostly copied notes from the board so that got pretty boring.
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• China
8 Feb
You were fortunate enough to have such an artistic teacher ! She sowed the seeds of virtue in you all.
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Feb
Good teachers make all the difference as to whether a child does well later on or not. I agree. I was indeed fortunate.
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@toniganzon (77064)
• Philippines
11 Feb
How lucky you are to have pleasant teachers. There's one elementary teacher I could never forget and he was my dad's college classmate. He knew my dad was great in Math and my sister excelled in Math too when she was his student. But I hated Math and I was scared of him. He embarrassed me in class when he made me solve a math problem and I just blacked out because of fear. I knew the answer, I knew how to do it but I couldn't because of too much fear. I could never forget how he would terrorize me. When I was in high school, I had this great teacher in Advance Algebra and I aced almost all of the tests. My grade was the highest and at that time I thought of my elementary Math teacher and how I wanted to show him my grades. Even when I was a university student I got exempted in Algebra class finals because of my high scores in exams.
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@toniganzon (77064)
• Philippines
11 Feb
@JudyEv Nope. Not at all. It wasn't my major. Just a minor subject which was mandatory for all freshmen university student.
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb
I didn't pass History for several years because of being ridiculed by that particular teacher. In the public exams at the end of the year where you were anonymous, I passed! It seems you were really good at Algebra. Do you use it at all now?
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@DaddyEvil (174228)
• United States
9 Feb
I had one teacher who remembered my older brothers so kept failing everything I did. Mom finally talked with the Principal and he had a word with her. I was switched out of her classroom soon after that. (That teacher would say she remembered my brothers before we'd take tests or when I was turning in homework. I have no clue what that meant but she always graded me as a failure.)
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Feb
That is just awful. What a nasty person to do that to you.
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@DianneN (254949)
• United States
8 Feb
I was as lucky as were you. I hope my students felt the same.
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@DianneN (254949)
• United States
9 Feb
@JudyEv Awww, thank you!
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Feb
I'm sure they did. I have no doubt of it.
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@JESSY3236 (22199)
• United States
10 Feb
cool picture. I don't remember any cool teachers while I was growing up. I did like a few of them though. I did get in trouble once.
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb
You did well to only get into trouble once.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
8 Feb
I have seen similar chalk drawings. One of my coworkers did that on a display cabinet we had chalk board painted. Beautiful. I did not rock the boat but I remember one unpleasant teacher in elementary. I did read on the side a lot.
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Feb
I would get completely carried away in a book and looked up one day to find the teacher striding down the aisle and just about apoplectic. I stopped reading under the desk after that.
@AmbiePam (120547)
• United States
8 Feb
It sounds like it was a lovely way for her to make her mark with students. She must have had incredible talent.
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Feb
We all wished we were in her class - simply for the drawings! lol
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
8 Feb
It must have been a pleasure to be in her classroom. I admire those with artistic talent.
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Feb
It would have been an outlet for her too I guess. She did a new one every few weeks.
@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
8 Feb
I had some really fun teachers too. But none that were artistic like that
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Feb
We were in awe of those beautiful pictures. They don't have chalk and blackboards now of course.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
8 Feb
Good teachers make such a difference and are often under-appreciated, especially by their pupils, until later
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Feb
That's so true. The 'easy' teachers aren't always the best.
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@Ronrybs (21504)
• London, England
8 Feb
Even our art teacher don't do that. Mind you there wasn't a chalk board in the room!
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Feb
Ah, you're much too young to remember blackboards.
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@LindaOHio (222288)
• United States
8 Feb
Your teacher must have been quite the artist.
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Feb
I don't remember any others doing it.
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