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Did a teacher ever tell you something you have never forgotten?
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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago
i travel all over |
I was told that I try hard but that I wasn’t bright. This spurred me on to do really well academically . Not sure if intentional . Also being told I couldn’t lose weight by a relative led me to lose a lot . A pattern of sorts |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
Susan O Hare Caught Anthony Hanlon Taking Our Apples
A story that finished in that exact sentence
It explains Trigonometry using the first letter in capitals of each word and its in my head 44 years at this stage
Sine equals Opposite over Hypotenuse
Cosign equals Adjacent over Hypotenuse
Tangent equals Opposite over Adjacent
Got an A in my Intercert with that maths teacher  |
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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago
i travel all over |
"Susan O Hare Caught Anthony Hanlon Taking Our Apples
A story that finished in that exact sentence
It explains Trigonometry using the first letter in capitals of each word and its in my head 44 years at this stage
Sine equals Opposite over Hypotenuse
Cosign equals Adjacent over Hypotenuse
Tangent equals Opposite over Adjacent
Got an A in my Intercert with that maths teacher "
I like it a lot |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My Home Ec teacher told me I'd never make a teacher or a nurse..Said I had no patience and the bed side manner of an elephant..
She said a life in hospitality awaits...she was right. |
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By *al2001Man
over a year ago
kildare |
""Only fish have bellies" scolded my HE teacher one day. I've pretty much only used tummy or stomach ever since when talking about the human body "
Your teacher was wrong
We all have bellies and it is a proper word.
Tummy on the other hand.... |
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I was told I'd never amount to anything. He viciously told me I would be a failure. I was a bit...wild...in school but I suppose he spurred me on. I've been quite successful in my career so far. I'm "young" to be where I am. I get annoyed at myself for still being hurt by his words  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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""Only fish have bellies" scolded my HE teacher one day. I've pretty much only used tummy or stomach ever since when talking about the human body
Your teacher was wrong
We all have bellies and it is a proper word.
Tummy on the other hand...."
I didn't mean I took it verbatim. It was a word she didn't like and obviously discouraged the use of it. And, by scolding us in the way she did, it stuck with me. Is that okay?
The same HE teacher almost took the head off me for hanging a drying cloth across my shoulder. I haven't done that since either |
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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in Co. Down |
One of my teachers in primary school told me to never copy others, to just be original and myself and that should be good enough,rather than getting praise for others ideas. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My building construction teacher told me I was wasting my time in the class that I'd never do anything in construction. Turned out the be a qualified plasterer and went out on my own for years and had 3 lads working for me. Funny enough he rang me for a quote to plaster an extension for him. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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I went to school when I was four and my first teacher was astonished at at a practical problem I managed to solve; I met her on the street more than ten years later. I asked her if she remembered who I was?
Her reply, "Could I ever forget you!" Somehow, that remark has stuck with me. |
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When I got 21% my Biology Teacher laughed in my face, so next exam I then studied for and got 96% (legit) The little deaf fart then asked if I'd take the exam again and when I pushed him on it, he backed down 
Accountancy teacher used to kick my in my chair but when I got 86%, he said "This is the man who made me eat my words" Class act 
Anyway...
Fooked if I know the moral of either of those stories  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Once had a art teacher think he was having a tough time at home this particular day we had a 1.5 hour of art. We walked in took our seats he was sat at his desk and had wrote on the board instructions for what we had to do. For about 45 minutes he never spoke just sat at the desk and drummed his fingers he then stood up and to the entire class said “you know life’s a bitch then you marry one” he sat back down and that was all he said for the entire class. |
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By *dfabMan
over a year ago
Dunboyne |
Make your handwriting lean slightly to the right. Handwriting leaning to the left is lazy.
To this day, anyone I work with whose handwriting leans to the left has been less enthusiastic about work!
Weird though hard to pickup in emails   |
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By *oodieMan
over a year ago
Mayo |
"Susan O Hare Caught Anthony Hanlon Taking Our Apples
A story that finished in that exact sentence
It explains Trigonometry using the first letter in capitals of each word and its in my head 44 years at this stage
Sine equals Opposite over Hypotenuse
Cosign equals Adjacent over Hypotenuse
Tangent equals Opposite over Adjacent
Got an A in my Intercert with that maths teacher "
I remember hearing Tommy on a ship of his caught a herring.
Seems to be the same thing but I still don't get it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember my old p7 teacher encouraging me to write backwards because being a lefty I always smudged. I decided to embrace the smudge and glad I didnt listen to him.
I remember being taught the knuckles for 30 and 31 days of year. I still use it |
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By *al2001Man
over a year ago
kildare |
""Only fish have bellies" scolded my HE teacher one day. I've pretty much only used tummy or stomach ever since when talking about the human body
Your teacher was wrong
We all have bellies and it is a proper word.
Tummy on the other hand....
I didn't mean I took it verbatim. It was a word she didn't like and obviously discouraged the use of it. And, by scolding us in the way she did, it stuck with me. Is that okay?
The same HE teacher almost took the head off me for hanging a drying cloth across my shoulder. I haven't done that since either "
Your old teacher sounds very highly strung and had issues that she brought out on students.
Say belly all you want I say |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
"My history teacher said that history was written by the winners"
It usually was in the past, but that has changed as information is disseminated by losers too, if they have survived the conflict;
it is called historiography and is a significant core model of any advanced history course. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
One primary teacher, who was consistently violent, irritable, sarcastic, critical and dismissive told me, a few years after I had left his class, that he detested teaching and that he regretted ever having gone into the profession.
He asked me to find out how he could become a vet.
I later heard that he came so unhinged that the school governors tried to get rid of him, but failed.
His behaviour in public and with his neighbours became increasingly bizarre.
I have never forgotten the vet conversation in that football field; he looked unhinged. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
A secondary school teacher, who crept into my tent whilst we we were on a camping trip, whispered in my ear that he wanted to teach me how to masturbate; he was interrupted by the other occupant's return.
I later heard that he tried the same stunt with male foreign teaching assistants who can to the school for teaching experience, but got a little more than they had originally anticipated! |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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""On a right angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides" "
I would suggest that a very large proportion of what is taught in schools later proves to be of no practical use whatsoever.
A good example is: Pythagoras's Theorem, as cited above. |
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By *rFunBoyMan
over a year ago
Longridge |
"I was told I'd never amount to anything. He viciously told me I would be a failure. I was a bit...wild...in school but I suppose he spurred me on. I've been quite successful in my career so far. I'm "young" to be where I am. I get annoyed at myself for still being hurt by his words "
Illegitimi non carborundum |
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""On a right angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides"
I would suggest that a very large proportion of what is taught in schools later proves to be of no practical use whatsoever.
A good example is: Pythagoras's Theorem, as cited above."
Pythagoras theorem is one of the most useful things I've ever learned in school. I use it regularly to establish a right angle when laying paving or decking. |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
""On a right angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides"
I would suggest that a very large proportion of what is taught in schools later proves to be of no practical use whatsoever.
A good example is: Pythagoras's Theorem, as cited above.
Pythagoras theorem is one of the most useful things I've ever learned in school. I use it regularly to establish a right angle when laying paving or decking. "
In my workshop the lads still using making staircases....chalk lines everywhere |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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A lot of employers would give you as little as a bowl of rice per day, if they could get away with it, especially foreign multinationals. (Teacher on a business course)
The balance of power, post Covid has recently shifted marginally towards workers as it also did after the Black Death. Wages rose very significantly, due to labour shortages, because of number of deaths in working population. |
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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago
somewhere |
"A lot of employers would give you as little as a bowl of rice per day, if they could get away with it, especially foreign multinationals. (Teacher on a business course)
The balance of power, post Covid has recently shifted marginally towards workers as it also did after the Black Death. Wages rose very significantly, due to labour shortages, because of number of deaths in working population."
Jubal are you posting this is the right thread |
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"I was told to cop on and it’s stuck with me through thick and thin
Are you now a cop as a result?
No but I’d like to think I’ve a bit of common sense "
I'd like to think that too.. Time will tell. |
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"I was told to cop on and it’s stuck with me through thick and thin
Are you now a cop as a result?
No but I’d like to think I’ve a bit of common sense
I'd like to think that too.. Time will tell. "
I appreciate your faith in me |
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"I was told to cop on and it’s stuck with me through thick and thin
Are you now a cop as a result?
No but I’d like to think I’ve a bit of common sense
I'd like to think that too.. Time will tell.
I appreciate your faith in me "
#allinthistogether
#staystrong
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
In reality that vast majority of what any teacher ever said in my presence was instantly forgotten; the few gems that are indelibly etched are mostly when they behaved inappropriately or unjustly. |
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"Susan O Hare Caught Anthony Hanlon Taking Our Apples
A story that finished in that exact sentence
It explains Trigonometry using the first letter in capitals of each word and its in my head 44 years at this stage
Sine equals Opposite over Hypotenuse
Cosign equals Adjacent over Hypotenuse
Tangent equals Opposite over Adjacent
Got an A in my Intercert with that maths teacher "
The conventional mnemonic is:
soacahtoa
Maths, further maths, physics.
A, A, A |
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A PE teacher changing the neck warmup exercises from rolling the head around to shrugging shoulders. Telling us that the old exercise is not good because it could damage your neck.
Suddenly these authority figures where not infallible and I realised that knowledge evolves even after finishing school. |
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