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I felt this one deserved its own entry, not least because it so thoroughly boggled my mind.
Thursday night, my father and I were sitting out on the deck talking, and he said something that just absolutely blew me away. We'd been talking about some of the stuff we'd been teaching my nephews / his grandsons, and he told me that I was "the best damned teacher he'd ever seen."
WTF? Where did that come from?
Both of his parents were teachers, and damned fine ones -- when they retired, they were given a big fancy retirement dinner, and were both given significant awards, including one for being the longest-teaching couple in the state of MS.
My father even compared me to my grandfather, saying that he had been a damned fine teacher, but that I was "head and shoulders above him."
Okay, I'll admit that I'm pretty good, and that by the time I'm done teaching something to someone they know it -- and know it well -- but... I had to pick up my jaw after hearing him say that.
When he and I were helping my nephew dress his deer, he said something similar to my nephew -- something along the lines of, "Now you pay close attention to what he's telling you, because there's no finer teacher walking this earth than him."
I hope y'all will forgive me -- I'm afraid I'm going to be grinningly boggled for a bit over this one.
Thursday night, my father and I were sitting out on the deck talking, and he said something that just absolutely blew me away. We'd been talking about some of the stuff we'd been teaching my nephews / his grandsons, and he told me that I was "the best damned teacher he'd ever seen."
WTF? Where did that come from?
Both of his parents were teachers, and damned fine ones -- when they retired, they were given a big fancy retirement dinner, and were both given significant awards, including one for being the longest-teaching couple in the state of MS.
My father even compared me to my grandfather, saying that he had been a damned fine teacher, but that I was "head and shoulders above him."
Okay, I'll admit that I'm pretty good, and that by the time I'm done teaching something to someone they know it -- and know it well -- but... I had to pick up my jaw after hearing him say that.
When he and I were helping my nephew dress his deer, he said something similar to my nephew -- something along the lines of, "Now you pay close attention to what he's telling you, because there's no finer teacher walking this earth than him."
I hope y'all will forgive me -- I'm afraid I'm going to be grinningly boggled for a bit over this one.
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