3k giveaway!!!! Winner chosen!!

I'm in thanks for the opportunity, My favorite teacher was Mrs. Winkler for English, actually enjoyed Macbeth. I also grew up with my mother being a kindergarten teacher, I remember getting into trouble and not getting a phone call home, my teacher (my mom taught at the same elementary I attended) would just walk over to my mother's classroom and let her know what I did!
 
My favorite teacher was Prof. Bramlett. He was always willing to do anything he could to help you. My favorite by far.

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I'm in thanks for the chance. My favorite teacher was my basic training senior drill Sargent. He taught us everything he knew about te best ways to do things, from the fastest way of making your bunk, to the best way to hold your weapon in the prone position. He was always there for us when we needed to talk about anything, and personally paid for a soldier to fly home for a funeral. My salute to d.s. Bourne.
 
I'm in, thanks for the chance!

My favorite teacher was Jerry States in college. He was my construction teacher second year. He did more then just teach material, he taught life. He taught being an honest and ethical business person. The list can go on and on. We stayed in touch for 15 years and my family went to visit he and his wife several times. This last year he lost the battle with cancer. He will forever be an influence in my life.
 
Congrats on 3K. I'm in.

I went through a relatively small rural school system. I can remember the name of almost every teacher I ever had K-12. That's because most of them taught in my school system for years before, during and after I wandered aimlessly through school, so I heard their names on a near daily basis, and since they lived in the same town, I waited on them frequently when I was working in the family store.

The sole exception, the one teacher whose name I cannot remember, is the one that influenced me the most. She only taught in our system for 1 year, 1966-67, my sixth grade year and she lived over in Austin, commuting 40 miles one way. She got a job with Austin ISD the next year.

She brought soccer to our small town. Our class played the first ever soccer game in town during PE that year. Academically, she was different, too. One of her methods was to take a book and read a chapter out loud every day. Then she would have us rotate through reading 1 page each out loud until everyone had read a page, and then keep going to the end of the current chapter, which usually took us through about 3 chapters a day. Some days you read 1 page, on others, 2 pages, occasionally 3.

She actually bought a copy of the books for each student so we could read ahead every page scheduled for class the next day so that we wouldn't stumble so badly regardless of which page we got in class.

Our first book was Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" Our second book of the year was "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien. Naturally, she followed up with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. These books got me interested in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and I became a voracious reader. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction, Biographies, Nature and Sciences, self-help books. I read them all. I have since read thousands of books, each of which has influenced me in some manner. I personally own over 3000 books, most of which I have read multiple times.

I still remember what she told us back then. She said

"If one of you reads 1 chapter a day out of a good book and the person across from you reads nothing, on average, you will be 12 books better than the other person at the end of a year. Every time you read a book, it changes how you think and how you look at the world. You have to decide for yourself how much you want to change."

48 years later, I am a significantly different person from what would have been had I not read all those books.
 
I'm in! My favorite teacher was Mr. Veiders at my community college. I took his deviant behavior class and for as strange as criminal's behaviors go that we studied, his behaviors were just as original. He intentionally did strange things, like wear a black glove for an entire semester, just to get people talking about him on campus.

On the first day of his class he slammed the door and yelled at everyone that he's not here to make friends and to not speak to him outside of the classroom. Well being me, one who likes to buck the system, I said hi and tried to talk to him every chance I got. He must have admired my perseverance because I became the only person he'd speak to in the halls. He was a great teacher and really into sailing. He'd play Jimmy Buffet songs during our tests...which many hated but again, it was one of his quirky experiments.
 
Thank you for all of the great responses! These will be great to read after a rough day:thumbup:
 
I'm in! This is easy because I am a teacher and coach today because of 2 main people...my 7th grade football/basketball/track coach, Coach Brown, and my college spanish professor, Dr. Mora...One taught me the love of sports, the other taught me the love of language. I try and pass BOTH on to the kids I coach and teach everyday!
 
Please count me in. Thanks great GAW. My favorite teacher was MR. Hank, he taught American history and brought it to life.

Tom
 
I'm in. I cant even begin to remember the name of my math teacher from so long ago.
 
I'm in thanks for the chance! My favorite was probably a professor I had my freshman year in the honors program. He taught this really random class where we went around campus and analyzed sculptures, buildings, art, and he had us research a piece of art on campus. It was really laid back and he was brilliant. He thought about things in a totally different way than anyone I had met up until that point. He's still pretty unique in my mind.
 
Lois was our movement and physical assessment instructor in Massage school, with more acronyms behind her name than I currently know the definition of! She loved us more than she loves teaching a very difficult subject I think. We had to learn the subject matter, but she did everything she could to get it through to us- all through class, after class, special weekend reminder classes just before tests. On top of that, she went over and above for me specifically. Knowing I was disabled going through school (broken legs getting repared), I couldn't work, was cut off of insurance and after my son was born we were living on the 25% of our regular income that maternity leave covered. She gave me almost every piece of clothing that my son wore for the first couple of years of his life. Her twin grandsons were growing out of clothes ahead of my son- and she made sure that all of their clothes came to him until he outgrew the twins!! Nothing like a teacher bringing garbage bags of clothes to school for a broke student! I remember one final exam I had in one of her classes. When my son finally fell asleep that night, my daughter woke up. I had no sleep for an 8:30 kind of practical exam in front of her. I could have chosen to drop one mid term test in order to defer the score to the final. I told her I couldn't chance it because I hadn't slept since the night before. During the exam I was trying very hard, but even though I was at the top of the class I was struggling. She made sure that I knew I could take my time and try to clear my head. A few well placed "Are you sure?" Comments I think we're given to bring my mind around. She could have been a hard ass but instead was such an angel to me, she is a major facilitator of me being in the dream job for me. Every client I treat I try to do her proud, it's a big responsibility she helped bestow onto me, I'm taking it as a challenge to show what a great teacher she was in every session.
 
I'm in! My favorite teacher was Mr. Oakley in pre-calculus trigonometry. He was both interesting, funny, and informative.
 
I'm in! My favorite teacher was Mr. Oppenheimer, who taught our electrical class at my school of building construction. Loved his class. Actually made it fun to come to school.
 
Great GAW, I'm in thanks and congrats on your 3k milestone. My favorite teacher that I won't forget was my 7th grade teacher Mr. VanHorn as he made us read the Hobbit which started my life long love of reading. If you are out there Mr. VanHorn, Thanks!
 
I went to a small Christian school and many of my classes in middle and high school were taught by the same teacher, Adam Watt. He taught everything from literature to math as well as our Bible and chapel classes. He was and is a very wise man and taught me a lot about life. He isn't really a knife nut but he always likes seeing the variety of knives and guns I have when I see him. We even worked on some extracurricular activities together, including some woodworking.

Now if he ever googles himself he'll find this, and by reading my username and this, he'll know exactly who I am haha.
 
I'm in! Mr. MacDonald- 9th grade. He loved to push us to our limits and make sure we understood anything he put into our minds. Thanks for the very generous GAW.
-CA
 
Mr. Goodman - 5th grade math, "The only stupid question is the one you don't ask. Because if you have a question, usually two or three other people have the same question."

Mr. Zhenle - high school drafting. Just very down to earth. Do you work, do it well, do it on-time, ask if you need help.

??? - High School Chemistry - again, very down to earth. Taught school so he could have the summers off to do his outdoor thing but really cared about the students too. Always there if you needed help. Went out of his way to have experiments that really demonstrated the principles of what we were learning.

Please count me in and thanks for your generosity.
 
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