One of my teachers in middle school (American guy, this was in an international school in Singapore), 8th grade humanities, left a coffee cup stain on a book I lent him about the German Army (under the Wehrmacht times)....because we got into a long winded conversation about WW2 stuff the one time...and he wanted to know where I got some of my info from. Never forgave him for that heh.
But he was quite the eccentric teacher I learned much from (he lived on a houseboat in Europe on the Danube for a decade or so, lived in Turkey too...and retired over there I believe). He was the guy that I first came across that told me about the three way haterade between Arabs, Turks and Persians heh (i.e to never lump em together and think they all the same middle easterner etc).
Real life knowledge and sharing books, I wonder if they even do that these days in schools anymore....its not very "politically correct" stuff anymore what we talked about a lot. Heck the year before for humanities (7th grade)...I had an oddball Vietnam war veteran as teacher....we enjoyed goading him into sharing stuff he had seen (when the curriculum stuff was getting dull)...and he would oblige almost always, those stories still stick with me (well past what we were supposed to learn)....stuff they would fire a teacher for and brain-bleach the students after that these days I suspect.
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