THE TEACHER I WILL NEVER FORGET BY @niglys8
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Teaching is truly a noble profession if you ask me. Without the teachers, there will be no teachers. Smiles!
I'm sure you might be wondering why I said that, Yes! teachers groom or train students who later on become private/government school teachers or lecturers. Teachers do not only impart knowledge to their students but also help them to make some good decisions on the right career to choose.
The teachers that have taught me both in my secondary and university school days have impacted my life in one way or the other. Thumbs up for all their sacrifices for me to become who I am today.
Amongst all the teachers that taught me in secondary school, the teacher that I will never forget is Mrs Fanny Achilihu, Aunty Fan as the students fondly called her.
She taught me junior secondary mathematics and she was a genius at it. Mathematics is the number 1 subject that I frown at and each time it's mathematics period I try every possible means to hide from the class. But because Aunty Fan was my maths teacher then, I dare not miss out in her classes no matter how boring I found the subject. Infact, before the time for her own lesson period, she's already standing at the door with a New general mathematics and sureway mathematics textbook and a leg of a stool (as her own cane) and the sight of that leg of a stool alone made me to have rethink of hiding from her classes😂
The thought of experiencing her leg of a stool flogging on the lower part of the leg (calf) made every student to have a sound brain and be serious whenever it's time for her classes. I received this special painful flogging in my Jss2 when I failed her test, it was very very painful and from that day onwards despite how much I hated mathematics, I tried not to fail again. Seriously, it is even more better to get a normal cane flogging than the stool leg flogging😑
Aunty Fan never forgets coming to the classroom with a leg of a stool for disobedient students but whenever she does and wants to use it. She will order the class prefect to get a leg of a stool for her.
Aunty Fan: Where's the class prefect?
Class prefect: Yes ma!
Aunty Fan: Get me the leg of a stool!!!
This get me the leg of a stool order by Aunty Fan highly sounds into the ears of every student on that particular classroom block that she happens to be at that time for her classes and makes everyone to burst into laughter. Infact some students changed her name from "Aunty Fan" to "Aunty get me a leg of a stool" 😂
I admired her a lot and wished to be a maths genius like her. Most of the times she taught me, I marvelled at how well she could solve some mathematical equations without using a calculator. She was that good and that was why even when I got into senior secondary, she was also asked by the principal to continue teaching us mathematics. But along the line, she had to leave us to New York to join her family.
I missed her so much then because despite the fact that mathematics was a very hard course for me she made it simpler and her classes fun as well. She was irreplaceable because after she left, there was no other teacher that taught me mathematics better than Aunty Fan did.
Above all, she was also very caring, loving and a mother to all her students.
I will never forget Aunty Fan because of her unique way of flogging with a leg of a stool instead of a cane. Also, I will never forget how hard she made sure that every student was on the same page with her before the exam day through her consistent assignments, student presentations, test and quiz.
And if by chance I meet her again I will give her a big surprising hug and a special treat for being such an amazing and unique mathematics teacher.
Thumbs up Aunty Fanny Achilihu👍
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@niglys8
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I agree without teachers there will be no teachers even the president.
Teachers not only teach lessons but educate students to have good attitudes and behavior.
Yea, that's right.