| he was my a-level politics teacher and he was an unreformed marxist, who despite his egalitarian views used to love playing favourites. I have detailed some of his exploits below, as per his facebook fanpage:
lay down on the floor in the middle of the class and gave his lecture in the non standard horizontal position.
Favourite quotes of his:
"I've been around a long time. I've drank a lot of pot; smoked a lot of tea."
"Let's have some bloody grit and sharpness - none of this laughter and hilarity."
Or there was the one time where he pushed himself off the desk to demonstrate free-market forces knocking someone down.
Once, to visibly demonstrate the effect Thatcher had on the UK 'political landscape' he dragged his table dramatically over to the right of the classroom, explaining as he did so that 'before 1979, this country was a nice place'.
During an OFSTED inspection he once put this quote up on the OHP -
"To be governed is to be watched, INSPECTED, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by CREATURES who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so."
and looked all hopeful that an inspector might wander in.
describing the road to socialism when he proceded to be a train for the entire lesson... also the anarchy lesson... when he decided to not write numbers in the correct order proclaiming "shit! f**k! im an anarchist! seven!"
Once all he wrote on my end of term evaluation was a Pink Floyd quote. "Set your controls for the heart of the sun."
he was explaining nietzsches views on truth and so spent most of the lesson talking to us from inside the cupboard yelling that he had found truth and it was pretty.
and everytime he would come across me, how he would address me by my surname, "Mr ******** hmmm? bursting with the vibrancy of youth, hmmm?"
he was a nut but the most inspirational teacher i ever had
Last edited by never was; 12-02-2008 at 11:46 AM.
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