Sometimes the people who shape us most never know they did. We forget names, classrooms, even faces with time, but one moment of quiet kindness survives everything else. I think that's what stayed with me here... not the lesson about grief, but the permission to be honest without being punished. What a remarkable gift for a teacher to leave behind, even anonymously
Yeah, it really was, kind of thing that I realise a little bit more and more as I get older. Wasn’t the best student mind but it was really nice looking back that most of my teachers actually gave a shit. Thanks for taking the time, I know you’re busy
I liked this piece. I had a couple of teachers who had similar effects on me, in terms of treating you with humanity instead of just something to perform a certain way at the end of the year in an exam so I can relate somewhat. That was a lovely relaying of that and the effect she had on you. Obviously pretty powerful if it has stayed with you and you think about it, now.
I think it’s strange and a fascinating that as I’m getting older (ugh) teachers and mentor figures are having a different weight to what they tried to instill in me. But yes, this instance stuck with me, I think it was more that we were in similar positionings with our time at the school and I think her being younger also helped.
Sometimes the people who shape us most never know they did. We forget names, classrooms, even faces with time, but one moment of quiet kindness survives everything else. I think that's what stayed with me here... not the lesson about grief, but the permission to be honest without being punished. What a remarkable gift for a teacher to leave behind, even anonymously
Yeah, it really was, kind of thing that I realise a little bit more and more as I get older. Wasn’t the best student mind but it was really nice looking back that most of my teachers actually gave a shit. Thanks for taking the time, I know you’re busy
I liked this piece. I had a couple of teachers who had similar effects on me, in terms of treating you with humanity instead of just something to perform a certain way at the end of the year in an exam so I can relate somewhat. That was a lovely relaying of that and the effect she had on you. Obviously pretty powerful if it has stayed with you and you think about it, now.
I think it’s strange and a fascinating that as I’m getting older (ugh) teachers and mentor figures are having a different weight to what they tried to instill in me. But yes, this instance stuck with me, I think it was more that we were in similar positionings with our time at the school and I think her being younger also helped.
Crazier times like that make you remember them more. Think 9/11. Start of COVID. Whoever being elected. Intense times have stronger memories.
All the times I had anything like that with students, you better believe I remember them. I know the same is true for your teacher.
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