Agreed! We need teachers who are 'nourishing' or nurturing, as was my first-grade teacher, but not the ones my sister and brother had.
My time in the Realschule-Dormagen (Mittelschule) was after summer break in 1962 till the start of summer break in 1964. Those were my 8th and 9th grade years. My principal teachers--five men--were all WWI…
Agreed! We need teachers who are 'nourishing' or nurturing, as was my first-grade teacher, but not the ones my sister and brother had.
My time in the Realschule-Dormagen (Mittelschule) was after summer break in 1962 till the start of summer break in 1964. Those were my 8th and 9th grade years. My principal teachers--five men--were all WWII Wehrmacht veterans. I'm pretty sure my homeroom teacher had been an officer. They were all enthusiastic about teaching us and were always well-prepared. We also had not a single problem with classroom discipline. :)
Yes, our six years in Germany in the 1960s and six years in Switzerland in the 1980s were rich with personnal experiences and different from experiences in our native USA.. It helped to speak the local dialect of high German and high German. Then they become friends much quicker. I was there for military service, graduate studies and consultant to several Swiss nuclear power plants.
Agreed! We need teachers who are 'nourishing' or nurturing, as was my first-grade teacher, but not the ones my sister and brother had.
My time in the Realschule-Dormagen (Mittelschule) was after summer break in 1962 till the start of summer break in 1964. Those were my 8th and 9th grade years. My principal teachers--five men--were all WWII Wehrmacht veterans. I'm pretty sure my homeroom teacher had been an officer. They were all enthusiastic about teaching us and were always well-prepared. We also had not a single problem with classroom discipline. :)
Yes, our six years in Germany in the 1960s and six years in Switzerland in the 1980s were rich with personnal experiences and different from experiences in our native USA.. It helped to speak the local dialect of high German and high German. Then they become friends much quicker. I was there for military service, graduate studies and consultant to several Swiss nuclear power plants.