3k giveaway!!!! Winner chosen!!

Ernie1980

Ernie1980

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This is my 3000 post since I joined this forum! I have learned lots of information and have met some great people so far, and expect more of the same in the future!!

The rules for this GAW are simple: list your favorite teacher and the subject they taught. If you want to share more information about how they impacted you feel free to do so. Anyone is free to enter!

The reason I am doing this is because my family and I are very involved in education. My mom was a kindergarten teacher, and my wife and most of her extended family are/were teachers. I am blessed enough to be in educational administration.

I will lead off with one of my most memorable teachers: Mr. Norwood, who taught me third grade PE. One of the reasons I liked him from the start was because he always played the games with us instead of just watching. He saw that I was a decent runner, and spent his weekends on several occasions taking me to track meets. I never really appreciated the time and money that he spent on me until much later, and I still have yet to hunt him down to thank him:( He is just one of many great teachers and coaches that I had during my youth!

On to the giveaway:
The knife up for grabs is a used but nice Case Butterbean. This one has SS blades with nice snap and blue curly maple scales.


I will run the GAW for one week, and then have a student draw a post number to determine the winner:)

Thanks for wading through my long post, and good luck!
 
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Wow, congrats on the 3K.
I am still studying so teachers and educators still form a large part of my life. To be honest I like nearly all of the teachers I have (and have had) so it's hard to pick a favourite. If I had to pick one it would have to be Mr Woodward or "Woody" as we were allowed to call him. He taught me manual arts in Year 11. I learnt a lot from him about working on the land. He was always up for a laugh and was possibly the best storytellers I have ever met.
I vividly recall struggling to come up with a design for a project in woodwork (not one of his subjects) and he brought in a few small furniture items that he had made and the tech drawings from them for inspiration.
Every now and again I'd run into him during a study period or walking around during recess and lunch, a joke was generally had, or a few small bits of advice here and there, on everything from exercise to dental care, sheep and cattle handling or where was best to go fishing on the weekend.
I only had his subject as a break from my academic workload, so I had that class four times a week but those four hours out of every week were a reprieve for me. All in all Woody's the best, in my opinion.
Thanks for listening to my ramble and thanks for the opportunity. I'll stop hogging the thread now.
James.
 
I 'm in please and thank you.
Sister Constance-Grade 7
"If you want to get a good job, then you better get a good education."
Nice knife too
Jerry
 
Great GAW, I'm in! I've been blessed with many great teachers over the course of my life--as cliche as it might sound, My high School english teacher assigned a few books (and pushed my analysis of them) that changed my life... Mrs. Moskowitz precipitated an existential crisis that brought on a process of critical self- and social examination that urged me to find myself by way of a BA, two MA's, and a PhD. These days, I try to be that teacher (in my case, professor) that leads students to profoundly question everything--what I don't give them are answers. Instead, I urge them to find those all-important answers themselves.

That is a great looking Case--should i win, that is going to my little boy when he is ready. He loves blue, and wants to carry a pocket knife--just like dad.
 
Congratulations on the milestone Ernie :thumbup: A very generous giveaway sir :) Not an entry please, but just wanted to say thanks for your contributions and to wish everyone who enters good luck :thumbup:

My girlfriend is a college teacher, and I've been a teacher myself, but as to the teachers I had myself in the 1960's and 70's, to say that I cannot think of anything positive to say about any of them, substantially lets them off the hook :grumpy:
 
Not an entry, but an excellent question.

1967 ... 9th grade Science. Mrs Harry Reid.

Both Mrs Reid and her husband had been educators since the 1920's. Mrs Reid had a permit from the County Sheriff, to teach us how to make gun-powder and how to distill alcohol in the school lab using glassware.

The gun-powder project was an individual and homework endeavor. Just a matter of going to the local drugstore for ingredients. The distillery was a supervised class lab project.

HOWEVER COMMA, Mrs Reid was called from the lab at the projects conclusion and near the end of class. We had distilled a small amount of pure 200 proof alcohol. A few ounces in a beaker. In Mrs Reid's absence, Bob Harris drank the 200 proof alcohol like a shot and refilled the beaker with water from the lab faucet. Mrs Reid came back. Mrs Reid suspected something. The bell for next class rang. Everyone quickly left the room for next class.

I heard Bob got real sick his next class period (English I think) ... had to go to the school office. They called Bob's mom to come pick him up :D

Several times during the school year Mrs Reid would have a film day for her classes. Sometimes we'd see science films and sometimes she showed us "Little Rascal" films.

OH, and in one of her other science classes, they did something with "laughing gas". It "messed up" one of the guys in that class, but he was okay the next day. Mrs Reid bought and gave him a wallet as an apology and get well gesture.

Not sure I learned the most from Mrs Reid or not, but her classes were interesting.
 
Cool giveaway, I'm in.

I also work within the school system, on a strategic level. My favourite teacher was one who thought math in university. She never gave up in me and really got me through those studies. I have her to thank for completing the studies on that level.
 
My favorite teacher is my high school Chemistry teacher Mrs. Kimchi who used to combine scientific games and challenges with her teaching, making the hard classes something I was waiting for. Thanks for the VERY nice GAW knife.

This is not an entry

Mike
 
3k is a milestone :) Congratz, Sir! Thanks for the chance, I´m in!

A teacher that most influenced me positively was my history/ political education / law teacher in 9th and 10th grade. I visited some kind of a economical education school in Germany. And examined in something between regular highschool and college grade in US. He is a great man who taught us about history in correct way and took also some philosophical aspects in his education. He was well respected and rather strictly against youngsters behaivor. In all the three subjects he educated us I finished with grade A. I think was more like him than the other teachers that tried to be friend with his pupils. ;)
I meat him some days ago in the grocery store and chatted some time. It good to see him sometimes.

Have a nice weekend.
 
Thanks, I'm in.

6th grade teacher Mrs. Johnston would always say "EVERYONE GET QUIET!".

Now that's some good advice.
 
I'm in, thanks.
Way back in grade 8 I had a teacher called Mr. Vallis. He taught science. His gimmicks were as follows:
1.If you didn't do your homework, he'd get a light yellow plastic wiffleball bat, tap your head lightly, and remark on the hollow sound.
2.His wife and himself were too old to have children, but if they did they'd be named Revolving Nosepiece and Endoplasmic Reticulum.
3. Every useful trick about Science 8 he taught us was always dumb trick #312
He retired the year after, but was one of the best teachers I ever had.`
 
Thanks for the GAW, and I'm in! My favorite teacher was Mrs. Priest, who taught middle school history. She taught us all about homonids (I still remember some, Ramipithicus, Australopithicus, Homo Erectus, Neanderthal, Cromagnon), Medieval history, and Roman History. She made the subject matter come alive with knighting ceremonies, and Roman Museum where we made the exhibits. She taught me (and many others) a true love of learning.
 
Really cool giveaway! My favorite teacher was Mr. Goosen in college. A great engineering teacher. He walked the walk before he worked for the college. He would tell stories about working on the first guided torpedoes...
 
My favorite teacher was Mr. John C. Beery in 6th grade. He had written a book on sailing and used it to motivate us. At the end of the year he took us on a field trip to a nearby lake and we went sailing with him.
 
Thanks for the giveaway!
I'd probably have to say my favorite teacher was Prof. Cheri Taylor, who taught College English. She just had a passion for teaching English and writing.
 
Been blessed with a lot of great teachers over my life. However, I'll say Mr. Stitt from 12th grade literature. He made us read the classics with an eye for the metaphors being used. And, boy, was he cantankerous.
 
I have had a lot of great teachers. I would be hard pressed to pick a single one.
Mrs. Berg (kintergarten)
Mrs. Mitchel (first grade, and hoping my own 5 year old gets her next year!)
Mr. Hammond (6th grade)
Mr. Taylor (5th grade)
Mr. Paul (7th grade English, and he made it fun!)
Mr. Lindholt (9th grade English, super fun)
Mr. Williams (9th grade Biology) He was one of those guys who told the truth about life. Had adventures all over the world)

There are more, especially when talking about college and post graduate.

Thanks for the contest.
 
Thanks, I'm in.

I had a lot of good teachers, but it wasn't until college that I found a great one. Mrs. Malave, a biology professor, loved her subject and it showed in her lectures. She was funny but very tough, only because she expected you to earn your grade. Showing up wasn't good enough, just like anything in life.
 
Thank you sir for a very nice GAW.

I attended a catholic high school many, many years ago.
My favorite teacher was Mr. Murphy. A very unique individual.
Very boisterous and outspoken in his views.
He taught Latin by day and also was a bartender in the evenings. :highly_amused:

Mark
 
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