Things that taught you as a child

[GW8IZR]

Keep hoping...

One day, it might do some good.

I've no direct experience so I'm able to dream :-)

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Books I suppose, but mainly making stuff out of bits of the things I'd previously taken apart to find out how they worked.

That didn't always meet with parental approval, for example pulling 'Britannia' to pieces to remove the worm drive gear was important to me as I wanted the wheels to turn when I pushed it.

I'd like to say teachers inspired me but they were rubbish! I now know they were just below average people that were just trying to get through the week but regardless they were rubbish. On my first day at secondary school one teacher got three of us to stand up and pointed us out to the rest of the class, 'these three will never make anything of their lives...' was her opening gambit. Years later I realised she did it every year for her own entertainment but I was so frightened of what she had said I never told anyone until 35 years later. One Chemistry teacher was good and he taught me a lot about the subject and prepared me for life after school. Careers teacher.. excellent, army, pit or railways was her question.

The lecturer's in FE were very different and I really made progress after leaving school, was lucky to get an apprenticeship and student engineering placement which put me under the guidance of some people who genuinely could inspire.. things got much better from then on.

Likewise most teachers were uninspiring i was lucky to have some passionate science teachers that strayed from the curriculum on random tangents and taught me alot

 

[8ob]

We were very lucky, our metalwork teacher had us making gocart bits during class. He gave up his time and money for anyone interested , we got to ( under his watchful eye) drive around the schools fields after hours in proper motorcycle engined carts that we all had a hand in building. Cant see that getting past the school board these days or finding a teacher prepared to give up their time unpaid

Bob

 

[ukracer]

I was always told there was no honour amongst thieves but the Tories have proved me wrong...

 

[fizzy]

We were very lucky, our metalwork teacher had us making gocart bits during class. He gave up his time and money for anyone interested , we got to ( under his watchful eye) drive around the schools fields after hours in proper motorcycle engined carts that we all had a hand in building. Cant see that getting past the school board these days or finding a teacher prepared to give up their time unpaid

Bob

I never had a teacher like that even back in the 70s/80s!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

We were very lucky, our metalwork teacher had us making gocart bits during class. He gave up his time and money for anyone interested , we got to ( under his watchful eye) drive around the schools fields after hours in proper motorcycle engined carts that we all had a hand in building. Cant see that getting past the school board these days or finding a teacher prepared to give up their time unpaid

Bob

It's all about liability now. Sadly there's no such thing as an accident - everyone rushes for their Solicitor's phone number when anything happens. Even if a person just witnesses an accident [I'm talking minor here, not blood & gore before anyone says...... ] they're deemed to have been traumatised.

 

[brightspark]

It's all about liability now. Sadly there's no such thing as an accident - everyone rushes for their Solicitor's phone number when anything happens. Even if a person just witnesses an accident [I'm talking minor here, not blood & gore before anyone says...... ] they're deemed to have been traumatised.

don't forget they need counselling as well

 

[slim_boy_fat]

don't forget they need counselling as well

That ought to be very effective....they'll be able to let the 'Counsellor' see their mobile phone footage.

 

[brightspark]

That ought to be very effective....they'll be able to let the 'Counsellor' see their mobile phone footage.

after it goes on facebook

 

[KemppiFrog]

I wonder if it was an old bloke I met? His name was Dizzy Addicot - he was a test pilot and flew in loads of films including memphis belle. I have never googled him before but just did it now. I met hiv several times - he was in his late 70s and still flying. He got me a flight in a Folland Gnat which was pretty special - let me fly it for ages!

https://www.minimarcos.org.uk/mmhda.html

Getting a flight in a Gnat was really special.. I tried it in a Lightning, but there was a ministerial clamp down a bit before.
Neil Williams & Taffy Ritch were the guys who flew the Mozzies.

 

[fizzy]

Getting a flight in a Gnat was really special.. I tried it in a Lightning, but there was a ministerial clamp down a bit before.
Neil Williams & Taffy Ritch were the guys who flew the Mozzies.

Never met they but with names like that they mujst be Welsh. And talking of which Brian Trubshaw was relation of mine (for people who don't know - Concorde test pilot).

 

[Luke]

I'm currently staying in a hotel with a restaurant named after him.

 

[Kent]

I actually think the education the kids get in all but the practical stuff has massively improved. With one very bad aspect holding things back - you just can't sack rubbish teachers and they hold back the good at all career levels.
I didn't like school. I think I might have really liked the schools we sent our own kids through though how much the parents put into things is very relevant also.
By crickey some great teachers I have seen far better than any we had but what about the mupet crew - unbelievable, I simply don't believe it

 

[KemppiFrog]

Never met they but with names like that they mujst be Welsh. And talking of which Brian Trubshaw was relation of mine (for people who don't know - Concorde test pilot).

You might like to see this:

we all read the bits put out by the French investigation. But the same friend who tried to get me a trip in the Lightning (I rebuilt a Tiger Moth for him (actually two)) went on to fly for BA and lectured on safety for them, told me the real story. The vid is what he told me way back, but with a little more detail.

Umm, I seem to be drifting this thread a bit...

Had a few very good teachers (thankyou) but several less so. Including a few that should have been locked up for their sexual tendences. Talking the 50s & 60s here, where things weren't questioned as they are now.

 

[fizzy]

I have never watched a single video of that concorde crash. I saw it once on the news at the time and that was enough! Never got to fly on it. The best aircraft ever built. Such a tragic end and not really the aircraft's fault. 100% safe record until that happened!

 

[Cobbler]

Funny enough, I have just watched the second part of the channel five programme about Concorde from a week or so ago. This covered the crash, looked like negligence of several parties to me. A beautiful plane, I first saw it when it flew over on its maiden trip from Filton to Fairford to begin trials.

 

[KemppiFrog]

I have never watched a single video of that concorde crash. I saw it once on the news at the time and that was enough! Never got to fly on it. The best aircraft ever built. Such a tragic end and not really the aircraft's fault. 100% safe record until that happened!

Fiz
The rather lurid header pic is misleading. The vid is JH sitting in a cockpit and relating what happened.

 

[fizzy]

Fiz
The rather lurid header pic is misleading. The vid is JH sitting in a cockpit and relating what happened.

Ah ok thanks - will watch it now!