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Join Date: Sep 2008
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Nothing in excess
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Here
Posts: 7,496
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Often the best teachers I remember from school were the ones who were best at reading their pupils and knew what made them tick. I remember particularly strict teachers that were pretty bad and pretty much ruined the experience for everyone by spending about 80% of the lession berating the entire class and holding us collectively responsible for all the misbehaviour when in fact it was normally a few morons who should have been kicked out in the first place. Then there was a science teacher who didn't seem able to exert any authority or shut the chavs up, no matter how much he shouted or sent people out.
On the flipside I had an art teacher who was quite liberal with the class, but still a total arsehole and a bully who joined in with other pupils if they targeted someone. One of the most vile people I ever knew at the time and that's saying something in secondary school.
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No matter that they act like senile 12-year-olds on the Today programme website - smoking illegal fags to look tough and cool. No matter that Amis coins truly abominable terms like 'the age of horrorism' and when criticised tells people to 'fuck off'. Surely we all chuckle at the strenuous ennui of his salon drawl. Didn't he once accidentally sneer his face off?
- Chris Morris - The Absurd World of Martin Amis
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