When I read about this topic of Ed�s the first time, yesterday, I thought of a really special teacher who was a math teacher in the elementary school I attended soooo many years ago. She wasn�t young even then, not good looking and for a woman she was very large especially for us, children under 14. She had an enormous amount of long fair hair and wore it in a large bun on the top of her head making her still taller. She was very strict as is usually the case with Maths teachers. But you see she could do wonders with us though Maths wasn�t a favourite with many of the kids. Actually I loved Mathematics since then and I was good at it and Ms Demes- for she was a spinster (completely lacking any bad associations of the word!!)- was responsible for the fact that many of us became engineers. She could extract the square-root of any number in her head and have marvellously simple solutions for some complicated looking problems. She is around 90, but whenever I visit my hometown and meet her (usually on the bus, my Dad and she live in the same district) she still recognises me, knows my name and asks about the others in the class.

While I am writing this and remember many of my former teachers and I think that I was very lucky, because I could write similarly memorable things and touching stories about some other teachers I had. I can just hope that once I would follow in their footsteps.