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At school, we don’t really think about the fact that teachers are ordinary people with their own problems, advantages and disadvantages. And only many years later we realize that some of their words and actions were a valuable lesson for us, although they had nothing to do with the curriculum. Today, on Teacher’s Day, our heroes share stories about teachers that they will remember for the rest of their lives.
They say school memories fade with time. But we remember individual teachers so vividly and vividly, as if we were talking with them just the other day. What is most interesting, it does not always mean that they were loved or outstanding teachers. Why do we remember them?
Marina, 47 years old, freelancer
“Tatyana Vladimirovna taught us physics, which I hated with all my humanitarian nature and therefore did not teach on principle. Accordingly, it seemed to me that the “physicist” fiercely hated me. In addition, she drove the painted high school girls to wash in the back room. This was the height of arbitrariness!
Once Tatyana left me and another classmate of mine for a chat after the lesson. Naturally, we thought that now we will again get “for the plaster”! And she… Very tactfully and delicately explained that our attempts to mask teenage acne with a thick layer of foundation “Ballet” look a little sad. And she told me how to properly care for problem skin.
Elena, 50 years old, translator, teacher of English
“My institute head of the department was an extraordinary person. In class, he suddenly began to ask something that had nothing to do with the subject. He joked quite caustically, as they say, “on the verge.” Harmful, in short. Well, we did not miss the opportunity to “prick” him at all sorts of KVNs and Student Days. They knew that he would perceive everything adequately and would not take revenge. The maximum will say his crown: “Turn on your brains!”.
I truly appreciated it when I myself began to work in the same department. If something was wrong, he took us, the newly minted teachers, aside, quietly said: “Turn on your brains” and explained what we were wrong about. Moreover, he made comments only in the presence of the same young people or in private, and never in the presence of older colleagues. Then we accidentally found out how he defended us at all sorts of scientific councils.
Once we were going to expel a negligent, but generally normal student for poor progress. And the head of the department stopped us: “Now we will kick him out, and what will happen to him? He’ll get drunk, he will go into all serious troubles. Of course, he did not pull idlers. But if someone stumbled, he was always on the side of the student.
Vladimir, 35 years old, programmer
“I would not say that the school was a complete nightmare for me, but there are very few warm memories. But I remember how I was struck that my son’s first teacher calls all the children only by their first names. Thirty people! Is that why they have such a friendly class? And the teachers always called us by our last name, the first name was remembered only in rare cases.
Olga, 56 years old, accountant
“As a child, I was a plump, completely unathletic girl. I didn’t know how to throw a ball, make a “corner” on the Swedish wall, jump over the “goat”. Then there were no “health groups”, all students were required to have the same results. For some reason, “athletes” came across extremely insensitive, frankly despised such students and put “three with a stretch.”
I suffered from an inferiority complex until Zakhar Aleksandrovich came. He was so soft and unobtrusive able to convince and cheer that in the end I fell in love with this terrible physical education, and at the same time my clumsy body.
Natalia, 37 years old, artist
“I had a wonderful teacher Taisiya Alexandrovna, she taught language and literature. She just truly loved us. She went on campaigns with us, talked not like idiots, but like sane citizens, praised us. Then she left for Sakhalin, and we corresponded for a long time.
Dmitry, 45 years old, designer
“In high school, many of us smoked, which was diligently hidden from the teachers, otherwise there would have been big trouble. They were especially afraid of the head teacher Valery Georgievich, who himself did not smoke and drove smokers mercilessly. And the only time he replaced our “Englishwoman” was a disaster.
My classmate Alena climbed to get something out of her bag, awkwardly bent down, and cigarettes fell out of her pocket. Yes, not somehow, but right into the aisle between the desks, under the feet of the head teacher. We froze: something terrible is about to happen. And he pretended not to notice.”
Nina, 44, water aerobics instructor
I hated the historian, considered her overly strict, picky and boring. And at the final exam, she unexpectedly helped me and sadly said: “History is incredibly interesting, but at school it is taught so tediously that they simply kill the subject. Do you think I enjoy chasing you by date?”
Now, after school, I read history avidly. Indeed, incredibly interesting! I remember her with warmth, I look at subjects and teachers differently. And I tell this story to my children.
Did you have teachers whom you still remember with gratitude?