Your Weirdest TeacherThe strangest teacher at my school used to practice his lessons at night. We'd watch through the classroom windows as he did his entire lesson, complete with questions to the class and telling off misbehaving students.
Were your teachers as strange? Of course they were...
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chthonic, Wed 9 Nov 2005, 13:43)
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ta-ta-tatty-ta...In primary school, we were taught the basics of music by an elderly spinster who travelled around all of the primary schools in the area. The curriculum seemed to be leading up to us being able to play "Merrily We Roll Along" on the recorder after 7 years of teaching. Except the lessons were so dull and she was such an inept teacher that we never managed it.
She did, however, have an interesting approach to teaching rhythm. For what seemed like hours on end, she'd stand at the front of the class, mutter something and get us to tap out a rhythm on the back of our left hand with our right hand while singing the beats, in the forms "ta-ta-tatty-ta", "da-da-daddy-da" or "ba-ba-babby-ba".
The upshot of all this education was that by secondary school, pretty much every schoolkid in my area hated music but was an expert at mocking the handicapped.
(, Wed 16 Nov 2005, 16:03, Reply)
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