} The ability to make people listen

i saw a student on the bus carrying a copy of Julius Caesar, and i started thinking about secondary school days. i thought about View and of course Mrs Mag Low. i think that the more i think about it the more i feel that she may have been the teacher that has left the most impact for me. i have had interesting teachers, and teachers who made me interested in the subjects they teach (which is extremely important i think) but Mrs Mag Low will always be that woman that i think of when i hear KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See".

there seems to be nothing else that it is attributable to except a lot of charisma. she just has the ability to make people listen - sometimes because she is talking really loudly (so we cannot fail to wake up and listen), sometimes because she is talking really softly (so we have to strain our ears to hear), always because she was saying something useful. Her class is like a perfect combination of content and delivery. also because she is like the picture of grace and composure and confidence, all of which i am terribly lacking..

and as i started thinking about the moot (as i tend to do all the time, nowadays) , i couldn't help but wish that i could sit in her class again.. for a touch of inspiration?

speaking of inspiration:

watching Bruce Lee is like watching a video game sequence.. he is that fast, and that precise.

2012-01-31, 1:53 p.m..
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