What teacher in school made the most difference for the good in your life?

Answer 1

Wow! Let me start by telling you I am 40 something years old....I had an English teacher in high school, Mrs. Sells, who was just the greatest! I had issues and she always seemed to care. I always thought of her and how much she impacted my life. (She also taught me for two years and English was my favorite subject!) Well, SHE found ME through Classmates.com a few years ago!! Said I had always been her favorite girl student. I was floored!! This came about just after I had lost my mom to lynmphoma, and I had moved out of state. Since then, I've visited her and we email back and forth several times a week. She was my mentor and still is. I always hoped somehow I could find her and let her know how much she meant to me and lo and behold, I never had to!! Great question!!

Answer 2

I had a 3rd grade teacher who chose one girl each year to pick on. I was the one! She was mean and negative about everything to me. I saw her acting the same way to a girl the yr ahead of me and the one below me.She hurt our self-esteem so much. I felt so sorry for the younger girl because she had a learning problem and the teacher would make her stay in and write her work over and try to be neater. The girl never got recess. The teacher broke a wooden paddle into 3 pieces on me for laughing at the lunch table! I didn't tell my mom but my bf did and my mom told the teacher she better stop doing that.My mom thought she could talk to this woman on a Christian level. Now days the teacher would be fired and never teach again! She raised our dresses to spank our panties. As an adult I heard that she was a lesbian and I figured she was that or liked little girls. Years later when I had teenagers of my own, I saw her pick up a little girl's dress at church and look underneath. There was no reason to do that! She was in the pew behind me and it was the music director's daughter about 4 yrs old showing her a new dress her mom had made. I got sick when I saw it happen and talked to the m. d. about it.Yes, I had a teacher who had an impact on me, a negative impact that made me not care too much about school.Believe it or not, I later became a teacher and taught 5th grade kids!

Answer 3

For me it was a teacher that had lived an incredible life and it was a miracle that he was still around. Colonel Clements, USAF Retired. He had been in WWII and was shot down over Germany and spent time in a prisoner of war camp where we was extremely close to death. He taught history but history was only a very small part of the lessons he blessed his students with. He was one of those teachers that everyone liked. He taught not only history but life in general. He made history interesting and he always made you feel like he was a friend, not just a teacher.

Answer 4

I had a professor in college who was an American citizen but the child of a woman who was British. During the Second World War, he was teaching in England, and not being a British Citizen he was assigned to teaching and caring for 300 children during the day (he and one other teacher). Since he was located on the Channel Coast, he was also assigned to watch duties at night. His equipment consisted on a helmet, a bicycle, a rifle and three rounds of ammunition. His instructions were that should the Nazis try to invade England, he was to attempt to drive them off with his three rounds of ammunition. If that did not do the trick, he was to ride the bicycle 14 miles to the nearest military outpost, report the invasion, draw three more rounds and go back and shoot at them again.

When the U.S. entered the war, he returned to the U.S. and joined the Army Air Corps. He told me that training was a bit hurried, after a week of ground school, they put him in a Jenny, a relic of the First World War, and he did a solo flight. It was sort of a "Do it right the first time, or die" type of flight school.

This person taught me a lot about life and about attitude in particular. I took two classes from him, but got to know him fairly well when I was president of the honors society (he was our advisor). I had dinner at his house or at a restaurant with he and his wife, and his mother who was in her 90's at the time, and a very remarkable lady.

Thanks for asking, sometimes remembrances of things long past is sweet.

Answer 5

Ms. Sylvia Houy. She was amazing. She was my "gifted" teacher. We had her every year from the 1st grade until the 8th grade. We saw her once or twice a week for the whole day, but she taught us everything. She taught us about music, literature, culture, manners, study habits, art, everything. She had the most profound impact on my life besides my family.

Answer 6

Two. They seemed to care about me as a person, looked me in the eye, smiled, listened and were "outside" the box thinkers.
If you know the kid's book/series "The Magic School Bus" Ms Frizzle the teacher in that book- she gets excited about what she teaches, leads the kids to make their own discovery and says learn from your mistakes!

Answer 7

I dont Remeber in Specific Teacher making a significant diff except for the principle of the school who had punished me for improper dressing habits

Answer 8

Mr. Scott and Mrs. Grimes-2 high school English teachers
informative entertaining and above all sincere in their pursuit of getting the kids to read and make up their own minds

Answer 9

My Freshman English Teacher. he was such a positive light in what was a very dreary point in my life. He never let me get away with anything and made sure to push me to do my very best. Thanks to him I am now in college and have gotten a 4.0 in all of my english classes and have maintained a 3.8 GPA in all of my other classes...

Answer 10

Mr. Jay Treat. My music teacher. He believed in me, and encouraged my music all the way through school.