Miiiiister GSB?

[Aaron Adler <cadlerun@>]

I heard some quote, or maybe read it, that successful people have a
teacher that was really influential. I was reflecting back on some of my
teachers and my most vivid memories from school.

- My 5th grade math teacher, Mr. Swanton. He had us run around outside 
and then take our pulse and compute the beats-per-minute. I'm pretty 
sure he managed to teach us all the math we'd learn after that until 
maybe 8th grade.

- My 8th grade science teacher, Mr. DiFranco. What could be better than
lighting things on fire? I remember distilling wood and producing
hydrogen gas. And lighting it on fire. He set his desk on fire and
demonstrated that sugar is not the right thing to put out the fire
(luckily we had a high ceiling in the classroom -- quite the fireball). 
There was a theme that year -- fire. It wasn't all fire; I remember we 
watched "The Andromeda Strain" and had to read a science article every week.

- My 9th grade English teacher, Mr. Murray. I'm not sure how much I
liked him at the time (okay, not a whole lot), but I can diagram
sentences because of him. And he had a large dot-matrix printout of a 
sentence that illustrated the difference between who and whom. For one
essay, my parents thought I overused the thesaurus, but he really liked 
one of the sentences and read it to the class. I was really embarrassed, 
but I got to tell my parents they were wrong, which is always fun.

- 10th grade bio with Mrs. Schwartz. There was a memorable 
humans-are-like-donuts analogy. Also, Mrs. Schwartz would always ask 
questions and many times the response she'd get was a period of silence 
followed by an "uhhhh." Usually she'd try to get us to at least _try_ to 
answer, but many times she'd get silence or a partially correct answer. 
She'd call on us by our last names and always with this big smile, 
saying our names slowly. There was no hiding in that class. 
Miiissttteeer Elgart?   How about you, Miiiister Adler?   Miiizz Day? 
etc.   And then she'd finally get to the people who, more likely than 
not, would know the answer. "Miiiister Rabkin?" or "Miiiiister Sackton?"

What about you, GSB?

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