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The Best Teacher

I have had a lot of teachers.

Some of them were good, and some of them were boring.

There is one teacher whom I remember very well.

He is the best teacher that I ever had.

His name was Mr. Alban.

He was a history teacher.

History is not my favorite subject.

I don’t really enjoy history a lot.

When I was in Mr. Alban’s class, he made history seem exciting.

He was more of an actor than a teacher.

If he was describing a war, he would make us feel all the emotions that the soldiers and their families would have felt.

We could almost hear the guns firing and the people shouting.

He would paint a picture in our minds that was very vivid.

When I had a history test in his class, I didn’t have to study much.

I would remember every word that he had said.

I would see him doing the actions that went along with his stories.

He was very animated.

He would shout out orders as if he was a general, or he would speak softly and reverently when describing the death of a great hero.

The most important thing that I learned from Mr. Alban was that I did really like history.

I just thought that I didn’t like it because most people had made it dull by just reading from the textbooks.

History is not just a series of dates and dull facts.

History is what really happened.

History is real life.

All the historical figures had real families and emotions.

They weren’t just fictional people.

After I took history from Mr. Alban, I realized that I really did have an interest in it.

He was my favorite teacher, and I will always be grateful to him for making me aware of just how interesting history really is.