What was the most amazing lesson you were ever taught at school?

Question

Who taught it to you, what age were you at the time, and why do still remember it to this day.

Answer 1

To not let school get in the way of my education. It's actually a quote from Mark Twain, but it was relayed to me by a favorite English professor. It's important to me because it means, simply, to not let the rigors and requirements of school get in the way of learning, to not get in the way of following what I love.

Answer 2

To help other less fortunate colleagues. I studied at one of GB‘s
foremost and better known boarding schools and was fully two
years younger than the second youngest boy. When I realised
what I was about to receive, being younger, smaller and less
prepared I felt that I was in a position to either sink, swim or
escape back to home. So, I did have a choice and I had to
make it from the start or fail altogether.

Well, my choice was to make the best effort to survive, and that
I did. Not that I was any better than the others, but I certainly had
more reasons to equal the best. In class, this would be a much
greater task, so I turned to sport and did it my way and soon found
that it was quite easy to survive when motivated. I then decided
that team sports would not achieve my purpose so my efforts were
focused on individual sport, in which case all praise would be mine
and not shared.

This does not sound very nice, but when you are the youngest boy
at school for the first two years, I suppose it was the easy and only
way to go. So, from the very first year I won track events all the
way from the 100yds. to the steeplechase. My sports master then
made it a point to become protective, and this he did very well. My
Housemaster also decided to give me special attention and that
was all I needed. The other boys also showed respect and did not
bother me, nor showed any jealousy. What else could I wish!

So, to this day, the establishment became "my school" and I can
only thank all those boys, and masters alike who helped me. I have
never forgotten any single one and they are the dearest human
beings that I have ever known, and in the silence of my mind, I
praise all of them for teaching and helping me how to survive, for
they had no obligation to care as much and all the glory is theirs
and not mine, for I was only a performer and they were my guide.
Thank you all and, I think, many will know who I am despite my
only mentioning my first name. May God bless you. Iain

Answer 3

The amazing lesson I was taught at school was Theory of learning which was taught by Prof. Akinkuotu at Federal College of education Osiele Abeokuta Ogun State Nigeria. I was 27years old.

I still remember it because that theory is been aply by me when teaching the students in school lessons.

Answer 4

I remember we were in English class talking about some book (to be honest i don't remember which one it was) I answered a question and my teacher stopped looked at me a little strangely (i was quite shy) and she said 'you know let me think about that for a moment i've never looked at it like that'. After class she called me over and said that she was impressed with me and although she didn't agree with my take on the book she thought it was an interesting idea. I know it sounds a little silly but i was 14, shy, relatively friendless and not confident in the least. I mulled over her comments for about a week. She taught me the greatest lesson of my life. It doesn't matter what happens to you in life but you have to be prepared to stand by your beliefs and this doesn't mean pushing them on to anyone it simply means nurturing them as your own and being open to others, accept consider think about and then agree to disagree. I will never forget Miss Watkins for that!

Answer 5

The most valuable lesson I learned was to say sorry. A Prefect told me that saying sorry was a strength and not a weakness. I was 12 or 13 years old. To this day I remember her words and think of how sensible she was and thank her parents for bringing her up right. It stuck with me because she was right. Saying sorry IS a strength and I make sure I pass this onto my nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews and anyone else that I need to.

Answer 6

We did a lesson in drama where the teacher was in role but didn't tell us ... she came in behaving in a strange, nasty way. Some people toed the line, some people panicked or shouted. A few started to realise what was going on and we got ourselves organised to play along.

It was all done on purpose as a test of initiative, and how to deal with a situation where someone we respect/of higher status does something strange. She came out of role and we then used it as inspiration to reflect and to create our own work.

It was amazing, and as a teacher now, I can appreciate how risky it was in terms of class dynamics and trust.

Answer 7

My first day at high school. The bully in our year went past me on the stairs and pushed me out the way. At the time I didn't know she was going to be the hardest girl in our year so I pushed her back. This went back and to for a few minutes and resulted in me falling down the stairs and giving up..... But you know what! She never bothered me ever for the five years we were there... LESSON - let 'em know you will give it back and they will leave you alone.

Answer 8

I was a shy kid. My fourth grade teacher gave me a book about national parks and told me I had to give 3 oral reports to the class from that book. It took me a long time to get up the nerve but when I did I found that I liked it. I could talk to a group and they would listen. It probably had something to do with my going into teaching.

Answer 9

I remembered a female member of staff in my last year proved to me that all my teachers weren't out to get me, She would do anything for anyone no matter the behaviour, she actually wanted to see me succeed.
Taught me a lesson in humility if that's the right word.

Answer 10

Business studies , the subject itself was V.hard but i loveeeeeeeed the teacher , that's why i used to learn whatever he used to teach me and after all i studied in business just because i loved the teacher who taught me business Only for two weeks!!!! ( was in year 10)