Think of the best teacher you've ever had. What did they teach, and what made them so special?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Probably Mrs. Porter, my form teacher in Infant's School in the mid-1950s.
She had, I realised many years later, some very go-ahead ideas, and among other things inspired my reading. I recall she sometimes even lent me her daily newspaper: I would not have known much about the places and people it reported, but I could handle the vocabulary.
When our father's work was moved, along with us, to another town nearly 100 miles away, Mrs. Porter gave me a leaving present: a copy of A.A.Milne's Winnie The Pooh, with an encouraging message to "keep on reading" she had written in the fly-leaf. I still have it!
She had, I realised many years later, some very go-ahead ideas, and among other things inspired my reading. I recall she sometimes even lent me her daily newspaper: I would not have known much about the places and people it reported, but I could handle the vocabulary.
When our father's work was moved, along with us, to another town nearly 100 miles away, Mrs. Porter gave me a leaving present: a copy of A.A.Milne's Winnie The Pooh, with an encouraging message to "keep on reading" she had written in the fly-leaf. I still have it!
