Stephen Green:Who are these adult-sized children, and what turned them into such cowards?
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I finally found out how slide rulers worked when we covered the logarithmic tables in gr 11.
it was the first exposure to calculus also. curiously my math marks went from miserable 50s to high 80s in one great leap. I googled the teacher’s name a ways back and she called me 2 weeks later. I thanked her for showing me that if I did the work I would get the marks. wonderful lady. but she was a rookie and the smartasses in the class competed to unnerve and fluster her.
if I had had the inner strength and muscular strength I have now, I would have taken them out of the classroom in a god**mn headlock. she only taught 1 more year before jumping onto the bandwagon of I.T.
needless to say she was my fav teacher of all time.
I wear a boot knife. Keeps me from wearing short socks. Have a throwing hatchet on the drivers side pocket and a 14 inch Bowie on the passenger side.
If you live in Canada,cal, I hope you have a good lawyer. A cop told me that even a baseball bat in my car would be considered a weapon, unless it was accompanied by a base ball and glove.
I carried all my baseball equipment around for years.
That’s not like it is today. Now it’s all about “student success”, “student as customer”, and creating a “safe learning environment” (i. e., warm and fuzzy feelings).
That was one reason I quit my teaching position at a certain post-secondary institution. It became too ridiculous for me to continue.
And people wonder why the students nowadays are wimpy cream puffs…..
Luckily a nice heavy lug wrench is perfectly legal…
I finally found out how slide rulers worked when we covered the logarithmic tables in gr 11.
it was the first exposure to calculus also. curiously my math marks went from miserable 50s to high 80s in one great leap. I googled the teacher’s name a ways back and she called me 2 weeks later. I thanked her for showing me that if I did the work I would get the marks. wonderful lady. but she was a rookie and the smartasses in the class competed to unnerve and fluster her.
if I had had the inner strength and muscular strength I have now, I would have taken them out of the classroom in a god**mn headlock. she only taught 1 more year before jumping onto the bandwagon of I.T.
needless to say she was my fav teacher of all time.
I wear a boot knife. Keeps me from wearing short socks. Have a throwing hatchet on the drivers side pocket and a 14 inch Bowie on the passenger side.
If you live in Canada,cal, I hope you have a good lawyer. A cop told me that even a baseball bat in my car would be considered a weapon, unless it was accompanied by a base ball and glove.
I carried all my baseball equipment around for years.
That’s not like it is today. Now it’s all about “student success”, “student as customer”, and creating a “safe learning environment” (i. e., warm and fuzzy feelings).
That was one reason I quit my teaching position at a certain post-secondary institution. It became too ridiculous for me to continue.
And people wonder why the students nowadays are wimpy cream puffs…..
Luckily a nice heavy lug wrench is perfectly legal…