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People Are Sharing The Most Memorable Things Teachers Ever Told Them (25 Replies)

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Had a history teacher who told me that “everything is relative.” You can only be poor if someone next to you is rich. You’re only stupid if someone next to you is smart. It helps to put things into perspective and realize how superficial a lot of things are in life. That being said, he also randomly told me that “wolves are badass dogs that don’t give a sh—t” when we were not talking about wolves or dogs in class so who knows what was really going on in his head. —iamthegonz

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One time one of my elective classes was just kind of chilling out the day before winter break and the teacher decided to arrange all our desks in a circle. He had everyone anonymously write something that was troubling them at the moment and he would go through and give some advice.

I wrote about my parents constant fighting and how I feared their inevitable divorce and the possibility of moving across country with my mother. I wish I could remember what he said but I vividly remember almost crying because what he said hit so hard but I kept it together. Less than a month later, both things happened lmao —skittle28

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I had a maths teacher who was an older woman, really strict and nobody particularly liked her. We mocked her way of speaking and were generally mean teenage assholes.

Once, when I was around 15, I hadn’t finished my homework so I dropped my book in a puddle and showed it to her in class to say I’d lost the homework so couldn’t hand it in. She questioned me a bit on how it had happened, then asked me to stay after class. The whole lesson I was shitting myself, expecting to be absolutely bollocked once everyone else had gone, so when the bell rang I sheepishly went up and sat at her desk after everyone had left.

To my surprise, she didn’t shout at me but gently asked if I was being bullied and somebody had taken my workbook and ruined it on purpose. I was a little skinny kid with glasses and braces, so I can see why she would have thought that, but in that moment I suddenly saw her as a human being with feelings and empathy and not just a teacher. I felt like sh*t for the way I had treated her, and for lying about what had happened. I never admitted it to her – just reassured her that I was fine – but it did stick with me and I was much less of a dick to teachers after that. —SilentSamamander

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“What do they call someone who graduated vet school with a 2.0 GPA? Doctor.”My first-term anatomy professor (IN vet school) telling us to stop fretting so much about the grades and worry about the knowledge. —nayersman

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“It’s OK, you can smile.”

This was first thing our middle school music teacher, who we all loved, said on his first day back after his wife, an art teacher many of us had in elementary, was killed in a car accident. He made music class a lot of fun, and we’d missed him in the week he took off after his wife’s death. He was used to coming into a room full of smiling faces, ready for another fun hour of class. We were all sitting utterly silent, fixed on him with what I’m sure were the most somber little faces he’d ever seen. He smiled at us after he said it, and we all smiled back, and he thanked us for it. —Euchre

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