The teacher you remember from schooldays, and why!

The teacher I remember from school was Mrs Patterson, she was a brilliant lady (my head of year through high school and my science teacher) she was strict but fair and was always up for a laugh..

Also the good looking teachers stick in my mind sports teacher and maths teacher x2

>>Also the good looking teachers stick in my mind sports teacher and maths teacher x2

How old were you Emma? Ahem, does the other half know about this?

I was in high school, left when I was 16

Only ''looked'' at the good looking teachers

Weird how you can remember something from 40 years ago, but can't remember last week, isn't it?  LOL

My 3 favorite teachers were in kindergarten - Mrs. Hart, 1st grade - Mrs. Bainbridge, and 6th grade - Mrs. Culkin.  They were all very kind ladies.  The most memorable of my high school teachers, but probably the one I liked least was the physics teacher Mr. Muldowney.  He would sit in the cloak room during class and never looked at anyone's face.  No social skills whatsoever.  He used to contemplate why women wanted diamond rings, and why didn't they want a coal ring because they were both just lumps of carbon.  LOL

The teacher who sticks in my memory was a nun. Mother Columba.

I know one shouldn't speak ill of the dead but she was a holy terror.

Even now I can hear the swish of her black robes, and the rustle of the rosary beads. I saw her once beat a boy of about 15, up and down his body with a cane. He stood there and never flinched. I was about 10 at the time.

She used to take us for maths or 'sums', as we called it. One day she said to me "What are you shivering for girl, it's not cold in here.?"   I was actually shaking in my fear of getting a slap round the head. (And frequently did)   Ah, the good old days.

My favourite teacher......I haven't got one!

Hi Sue:  Yes, we've all heard horror stories of the nuns.  With all the stories of caning on this thread, I thought maybe everybody must have gone to a Catholic school.  LOL

Frankly, I didn't go to Catholic school because my mother did.  There is a comedy play here called Late Night Catechism that's a light hearted parody of all the stereotypes of Catholic school.  I haven't seen it but everyone says it's funny.  I invited my aunt (my mother's sister) to go to a performance and she wouldn't go.  She didn't think there would be anything funny about it. He memories of going to Catholic school back in those days (the 30's), were not good ones and she didn't care to relive it, even in fun.

The Catholic schools here now are far superior to the public schools.  They are mostly staffed by lay teachers now, not nuns and have stricter education and discipline standards.  They are PC enough to be inclusive and culturally sensitive, but not so much that they can't keep order and discipline.  They don't beat kids anymore, but if there is a continually unruly student in the classroom, he or she gets kicked out.  And they insist on parental involvement, which is what the public schools can't do.