Mike Collins
The best teacher ever, and the reason I am a teacher today.

He taught me when I was in what today would be year 4. He taught us fractions with cakes and angles with a snooker table!

However the reason that I remember him so fondly was that he would answer any question you had. He would never fob it off or tell you he didn't know. If he didn't know the answer right then he would find out and tell you the next day.

When I qualified as a teacher my mum mentioned that he was now head teacher of a Primary school in the next town. I wrote to him and told him how much of an influence he was on me. He wrote back telling me what he could remember of the school and my year group.

I recently found out that not long after this he suffered a stroke, or something like it, and lost his memory.
Well Mr Collins, there are many of us out there who all remember you.
If I am remembered with such fondness by one child the way that I know the whole class remembers him then I'll consider myself an awesome teacher.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 17 Mar 2011, 18:23, Reply)