Best Teacher Ever - for US Teacher Appreciation Day 2022! |
Best Teacher Ever - for US Teacher Appreciation Day 2022! He Gets an A+ Teachers. The ever under-appreciated, oft-maligned, guides. I was lucky. I had one of the most magical, inspiring teachers ever. He made all the difference in my small world. He took the time to figure out which buttons to push to let me realize I was more than I thought. I am who I am today because of him. And, it wasn't just me. He touched that inner self in all of us. He helped us shine and grow. That's the reason that fifty-seven years later, I still call this teacher my hero. We were his first class. The class he didn't know he was to have until five minutes before we walked into class. Five minutes later we were his kids. He pushed us to learn and be better. He searched for our strengths and had us focus on them. He found our weaknesses and showed us how to obliterate them. He took his love of learning and imbued it in us, teaching us the sheer joy of learning for its own sake; not merely for a grade. Robin Williams, as John Keating, was almost, but not quite, as good a teacher. That is how stellar a teacher Mr. MacMurren was. |