tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post5861345105840470461..comments2024-03-27T05:29:09.185+00:00Comments on Grumpy Old Ken: Memories from Yesterday.Grumpy Old Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17828200865710133059noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-68770057983134528482010-03-30T19:18:59.773+01:002010-03-30T19:18:59.773+01:00Clippy
Nice thought, thanks.Clippy<br />Nice thought, thanks.Grumpy Old Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828200865710133059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-5449955211637946992010-03-28T17:38:50.397+01:002010-03-28T17:38:50.397+01:00Great story Ken. I bet you were one of those teach...Great story Ken. I bet you were one of those teachers who made a difference to many lives, and didn't even know it.<br />;-)Clippy Mathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15922234265229327474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-34766812358481596292010-03-23T12:41:08.561+00:002010-03-23T12:41:08.561+00:00Anonymous
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Thank you for introducing me to Fran...Anonymous<br />Hi<br /> Thank you for introducing me to Frankl. What a brilliant mind. Strangely enough I was brought up as a youngster in the Moravian faith.Grumpy Old Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828200865710133059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-67826815611403367522010-03-23T06:54:33.228+00:002010-03-23T06:54:33.228+00:00I am indeed a 'madam' as you so formally p...I am indeed a 'madam' as you so formally put it. You are right that teachers wield a great deal of power that can either be used to encourage and build up or to dessimate and denigrate. More so, perhaps in the 50's and 60's when teaching was regarded as a profession akin to medicine or law. I suspect that a number of people knew that I was wrongly placed, but 'they' must be right - after all, they were teachers, weren't they?<br /><br /> As one of my hero's, Frankl, wrote,<br />'...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-6400400873503955642010-03-22T23:11:28.525+00:002010-03-22T23:11:28.525+00:00mutley
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Derby, not Burton, though your erudite s...mutley<br />Hi<br />Derby, not Burton, though your erudite style suggests it never did you any harm!Grumpy Old Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828200865710133059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-87903963666179755192010-03-22T23:09:24.878+00:002010-03-22T23:09:24.878+00:00Anonymous
Hi and welcome. What sensitive comments,...Anonymous<br />Hi and welcome. What sensitive comments, I feel for you. You have great power at times as a teacher and should be aware of this, it is not clever to 'put pupils down'. You write with great insight, you have your reasons for doing so anonymously but you do it with feeling. Good luck to you, sir. ( Now there is an assumption, it could of course be madam.)Grumpy Old Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828200865710133059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-84761614515483361932010-03-22T23:03:13.586+00:002010-03-22T23:03:13.586+00:00Myrna
Hi
Thanks and welcome. we did our best I hop...Myrna<br />Hi<br />Thanks and welcome. we did our best I hope. still see some, embarrassed when they call you 'sir'!Grumpy Old Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828200865710133059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-56795014516581191492010-03-22T23:01:39.297+00:002010-03-22T23:01:39.297+00:00Happy Frog
Hi and thanks!Happy Frog<br />Hi and thanks!Grumpy Old Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828200865710133059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-47649480594147344602010-03-22T23:00:53.937+00:002010-03-22T23:00:53.937+00:00addy
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i never moved very far away and still see...addy<br />hi<br /> i never moved very far away and still see some. But sadly those most successful move away, seldom to return.Not too keen on reunions!Grumpy Old Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828200865710133059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-67084925794456996292010-03-22T22:59:14.526+00:002010-03-22T22:59:14.526+00:00fly in the web
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What a sensitive understanding c...fly in the web<br />hi<br />What a sensitive understanding comment. Plus the phrase 'fist and boot' is very evocative!Grumpy Old Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828200865710133059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-49786436106650756542010-03-22T22:57:32.863+00:002010-03-22T22:57:32.863+00:00slommler
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What a lovely phrase 'treasures hi...slommler<br />Hi<br />What a lovely phrase 'treasures hidden from the light'.Grumpy Old Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17828200865710133059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-37934371369055211002010-03-22T22:27:59.629+00:002010-03-22T22:27:59.629+00:00You didnt teach me did you? I was at school in Bu...You didnt teach me did you? I was at school in Burton at Wulfric Comprehensive.... now alas no more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-23738621018023763452010-03-22T18:35:46.757+00:002010-03-22T18:35:46.757+00:00Thank you for this post, Ken. I was referred to as...Thank you for this post, Ken. I was referred to as a 'Noddy' at school and could never work out whether my teachers thought that I was so stupid that I wouldn't know what their metaphor alluded to, or, that I was so beneath them that it didn't matter, anyway.Things may be different now, but back then the scenario was 'once a remedial, always a remedial'. At school, I read Janet and John until the magical May leaving day when I was unceremoniously thrown out so that the 'proper' pupils could pursue their exams; under the covers at home, I read Gorky and no-one ever knew! I got a job cleaning toilets and the stigma of my schooldays took almost 30 years to dissolve.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-32547859278591036122010-03-21T17:27:10.480+00:002010-03-21T17:27:10.480+00:00What a charming post. It's so true that some ...What a charming post. It's so true that some children don't begin to shine until a creative caring teacher brings out the best in them. You sound like one of those teachers. I hope you hear from some of your former students.MYRNAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618079009742873581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-89939846001063858702010-03-21T10:39:33.904+00:002010-03-21T10:39:33.904+00:00Really thought provoking post.Really thought provoking post.Happy Frog and Ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02679066739313347920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-26163245101575185282010-03-21T10:18:54.520+00:002010-03-21T10:18:54.520+00:00It would be nice to arrange a reunion. Does your o...It would be nice to arrange a reunion. Does your old school do that sort of thing?ADDYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01018958238940897902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-91300632486517270672010-03-21T02:48:54.205+00:002010-03-21T02:48:54.205+00:00I passed the eleven plus and missed out on this, b...I passed the eleven plus and missed out on this, but I remember still the results being read out in class and one boy bursting into tears as he learnt that he was destined for the'fist and boot'secondary school rather than the grammar scool.<br />He was a sensitive, intellectual boy from a home that was the antithesis of his qualities and he went down - fast.<br /><br />No, I still don't think mixed class abilities are good, but I remember Colin crying even now.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941930385963521365.post-49374178332977076632010-03-21T02:28:57.488+00:002010-03-21T02:28:57.488+00:00It really makes you think!! What treasures are hi...It really makes you think!! What treasures are hidden from the light.?.<br />Hugs<br />SueAnnSueannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05299288406218968621noreply@blogger.com