Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Remembering people is the most fundamental gesture of love and respect. For me, there are people in my life who are no longer with me, who have died, who are with me as much as any living person because I remember everything about them. My great-uncle, who I got a lot of guidance in life from, meant so much to me.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?
I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.
I have a very, very good memory, and I always remember the people who have done right by me and the people who have done wrong by me.