Elon Musk
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Similar story: 7th grade math teacher had left my school unexpectedly and so the principal, who had been in WW2, took over math class.
He told amazing and brutal stories of his time in the war, while also doubling the normal curriculum speed to do 2 years of math in 1.
But if you didn’t do your extra math homework, you didn’t get to hear the stories. Everyone did their homework.
FischerKing@FischerKing64· Jan 15, 2026I had a male teacher for grades 5 and 6 who was highly eccentric (and not gay - he was a family man without a whiff of scandal). He had old printing presses in the classroom and we learned about how books and newspapers were printed - by printing our own pages with movable type
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