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posted by
richinstore
on January 31, 2007 at 6:37 AM
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Ciel
Charlie sounds like he was a wonderful teacher..I can remember having one professor who had bad breathe and insisted upon tallking very close...One day he was talking so close to me I darn near passed out. He was a great teacher, but not one you want to get that close to...
posted by
Offy
on January 30, 2007 at 2:13 AM
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My thanks to everyone who has responded here--
my time online has been much curtailed of late, and I don't spend as much time expressing my appreciation for your comments as would be nice, but I do in fact very much appreciate every comment and hello! My response is, instead, to click on your name and visit your blogs, and possily leave a comment there... or a flower, or something...
posted by
Ciel
on January 29, 2007 at 9:12 AM
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Ariel, in my school experience, the least equipped to teach
were the psychology and education professors. I thought that was kind of odd.
posted by
Ciel
on January 29, 2007 at 9:08 AM
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Ciel
One wonders what the hell some folks are doing in universities, teaching anything ; especially history!
History can easily be made moving, fascinating, funny, if one only takes the trouble.
I was quite flattered really, when the other day I received a comment on one of my historical posts that the blogger was sure that I'm a retired history prof! Vey nice perception of one who left school at 14 with no qualifications.
It's no wonder that so many people find history so boring and irrelevant!
posted by
ariel70
on January 29, 2007 at 5:35 AM
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Oh God. A heart attack.... Life is so f------g short!
posted by
WindTapper
on January 29, 2007 at 5:07 AM
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Jeremy, Sigmund was in WWII.
I have googled the name, and apparently, it is not an unusual name, and is associated with aristocratic Austrian and German families. Most of the references I found were actually in German, which I don't speak, except for danke shein and gesundheit...
posted by
Ciel
on January 28, 2007 at 11:24 PM
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ciel
i was reading a book, and thinking of sigmund you wrote of. was it the franco prusian war in 1870 71 and battle of worthe he fought in, or the world war?
posted by
appleworks7
on January 28, 2007 at 8:24 PM
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Ceil
I used to think it was a requirement to be a bit "off center" to teach college classes. My favorite one always marched in playing a recorder and reminding us all "Carpe Diem"!
posted by
Blue_feathers
on January 28, 2007 at 2:40 PM
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Great reminescenses. I went to college in the '60s. Man, did I have some weirdo professors. I thought they were great. At the time, I thought they actually knew something. MoonSpirit 
posted by
syzygy
on January 28, 2007 at 12:28 PM
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Ciel
A very touching story, Ciel. Thank you for posting it.
posted by
johnmacnab
on January 28, 2007 at 11:01 AM
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Oh God, I had some weird ones too!
This makes me remember them.
posted by
telemachus
on January 28, 2007 at 9:54 AM
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Charlie sounds like he was one of a kind!
-^..^- Bo
posted by
Whacky
on January 27, 2007 at 8:56 PM
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