Comments on: School Days http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days Cooking - Photography & More Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:09:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Christine http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-442 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:11:18 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-442 Miles, Thanks, I am very glad the PC is functioning again. I have really missed it, amazing how these machines have become part of our lives. I felt quite "cut off"! Perhaps I should go in search of an inspiring IT teacher with some technical knowledge. On second thoughts.... Miles,
Thanks, I am very glad the PC is functioning again. I have really missed it, amazing how these machines have become part of our lives. I felt quite “cut off”!
Perhaps I should go in search of an inspiring IT teacher with some technical knowledge. On second thoughts….

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-431 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:58:55 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-431 Christine, Nice to see you're PC has been repaired! It seems a common thread about teaching standards, I am not saying all are bad, it can be a very hard job and the good ones deserve a lot of praise but we could all do with a few more of them. Like any other job though, if you yourself don't feel valued then the rot soon sets in and the consequences can be far reaching. Miles Christine,
Nice to see you’re PC has been repaired!
It seems a common thread about teaching standards, I am not saying all are bad, it can be a very hard job and the good ones deserve a lot of praise but we could all do with a few more of them. Like any other job though, if you yourself don’t feel valued then the rot soon sets in and the consequences can be far reaching.
Miles

]]> by: Christine http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-428 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:05:33 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-428 Miles, Now you are taking me down memory lane too. I couldn't wait to leave school although I had to go to colleges later on. I can only recall 2 lecturers who ever inspired me and showed me what real teaching should have been about and wondered how much more I might have learned. As you have proved the stuff is in us and if not brought out may triumph through sheer grit. I had an aunt who told my mother and I not to bother with further education as I had not got it in me. Isn't it a great feeling though when you can prove someone so wrong in later years? Miles,
Now you are taking me down memory lane too. I couldn’t wait to leave school although I had to go to colleges later on. I can only recall 2 lecturers who ever inspired me and showed me what real teaching should have been about and wondered how much more I might have learned. As you have proved the stuff is in us and if not brought out may triumph through sheer grit.
I had an aunt who told my mother and I not to bother with further education as I had not got it in me. Isn’t it a great feeling though when you can prove someone so wrong in later years?

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-427 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:41:36 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-427 Miles, I think we all agree then that the world is teeming with mediocrity and short-sighted teachers. Thank goodness we all had the strength of character to rise above it and flourish with real musketeer spirit :) Cid Miles,

I think we all agree then that the world is teeming with mediocrity and short-sighted teachers. Thank goodness we all had the strength of character to rise above it and flourish with real musketeer spirit :)

Cid

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-426 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:25:48 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-426 SC, Thanks for the compliment, with regard to the 'memoirs' such as this one I am doing it so that visitors to this site can get an insight into the reality of doing what I do as well as for me to look back and see how the past has shaped me into the person I am today (bitter!!) Hopefully it will strike a chord with others and they will recall stories of their early days in the working world. Thanks for commenting, it is greatly appreciated. Miles SC,
Thanks for the compliment, with regard to the ‘memoirs’ such as this one I am doing it so that visitors to this site can get an insight into the reality of doing what I do as well as for me to look back and see how the past has shaped me into the person I am today (bitter!!)
Hopefully it will strike a chord with others and they will recall stories of their early days in the working world.
Thanks for commenting, it is greatly appreciated.
Miles

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-424 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:20:29 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-424 Rod, Now that's funny!-with teachers like that it's amazing we ever earned a living. Miles Rod,
Now that’s funny!-with teachers like that it’s amazing we ever earned a living.
Miles

]]> by: SC http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-423 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:14:41 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-423 Hi Miles, I hope all is well, I forgot to mention in my previous comment, this is a great write-up, looking forward to reading others on my daily visits to this site. SC. Hi Miles,
I hope all is well,
I forgot to mention in my previous comment, this is a great write-up, looking forward to reading others on my daily visits to this site.
SC.

]]> by: Rod http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-422 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:11:19 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-422 <blockquote>I have often wondered about people who make such statements as “You Never Will” - “You Will Never Be”,</blockquote> I was once told by an English teacher that nobody would read anything I wrote. Now, quite literally, millions have ! Quite what they made of it is another matter of course :)

I have often wondered about people who make such statements as “You Never Will” - “You Will Never Be”,

I was once told by an English teacher that nobody would read anything I wrote.
Now, quite literally, millions have !
Quite what they made of it is another matter of course :)

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-421 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:21:34 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-421 SC, Say no more-read you loud and clear! Miles (from a safe distance!!) SC,
Say no more-read you loud and clear!

Miles (from a safe distance!!)

]]> by: SC http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-420 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:55:06 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/school-days#comment-420 "Try it Now" Miles, I have had them over the years that did try to shall we say push their opinion a little to far. Well as far as they were aloud to get. .... “Try it Now”
Miles,
I have had them over the years that did try to shall we say push their opinion a little to far. Well as far as they were aloud to get. ….

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