Editor:
Who was your favourite teacher? What did he or she teach you? Some of my teachers have made a big difference in my life; in fact, most of my teachers have taught me a valuable lesson or two.
For a start, I'd like to extend gratitude to my elementary teachers from Davis Bay and Sechelt, some of whom still live on the Sunshine Coast:
Thank you, Miss McKenzie, for teaching me to read (in that small class.)Thank you, Mrs. Hooker, for introducing me to genres, including poetry.Thank you, Miss Milne, for teaching me to befriend my intellectual rival, instead of making her life difficult.Thank you, Mr. Buckle, for putting us in inter-racial groups, so we, from different communities, could learn to talk to one another.Thank you, Mr. Lizee, for teaching me how to hold my pen properly and to love ancient Greece.Thank you, Miss Gates, not my classroom teacher, for teaching me macramé and folk dance at lunch (it was the '70s.)Thank you, Mr. Gray, for making me an athlete, and for making it cool to be smart.I'm also grateful that my mother, the late Mrs. Kathleen McKibbin, a gifted, local kindergarten teacher, taught me to understand that education is the key to future opportunities, and to stand up for what's right.
Susan Telfer
Gibsons
