Introduction
In this thread, I am going to write extensively about many of the remarkable teachers and lecturers I met during my studentship. It's going to be an exciting series though lengthy.

Background
I attended Government College, Umuahia. Later I studied Economics and Political Science Education in Abia State College of Education Technical, Arochukwu (ASCETA: 2007-2010) and Education, History/International Studies in Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri (AIFCE: 2011-2015).

I am going to write about them in no particular order.

N/B: All the characters in this thread are true but the names are not

Mr Ben
This is one of the most remarkable lecturers I met throughout my undergraduate days. He taught us Economics mathematics (Eco maths). This was the most difficult course we met in the Economics curriculum. Mr Ben happened to be the most, if not the only, qualified person to teach the course in the whole school. If the course is assigned to other lecturers in Economics department, they cleverly skip the mathematical aspect. If it's assigned to lecturers from maths department, they teach pure maths without interpreting it from economics point of view.

Mr Ben had degrees both in Economics and mathematics, but his personality is out of this world. Every year, more than 60% of his students fail the course. Who are you to dare try to sort Mr Ben?

He comes to class around 2 pm when the sun is hotest and would remain in class till night not minding whether or not the students are coping. If you complain he will ask you to use the back door and leave quietly. The problem is not that he doesn't know how to teach, but his teaching method is suitable for advanced maths students not for intermediate economics students.

One fateful day he was teaching Differentiation. He was repeating "keep this constant, differentiate this. Keep this constant, differentiate this" until he slept off while standing...

During exams, he doesn't submit his questions to the department. He set the questions and leave it in his system. On the exam day, he would go to the venue and make sure that everyone is well seated before he goes back to his office, print the questions, photocopy them and bring them to the hall.

Thanks to S.T., a fresh chemical engineering graduate that taught me easier methods of doing matrix and differentiation; that was how I passed through Mr Ben.

Mr Ben has anger issue. He can fight anyone at any place. He fights both students and his fellow lecturers. Just don't step on his nerves. He was once suspended for fighting a lecturer.

One day I was watching him come down from his car while it was raining. He was holding umbrella but never cared to open it till he got to his office. On another occasion, he frantically tried to stop a rolling vehicle that was driven by a learner with his hands

Mr James
This man is dramatic. In Nigerian politics he would play the role of Rochas Okorocha. The most remarkable course he taught us is Political Economy. Mr James is a Marxist. All his arguments and political views are tilted towards Marxism.

The most remarkable thing about Mr James is his teaching method. He is very easy with words and very confident of himself. He doesn't go to class with note whatsoever. He doesn't drag lecture hall with anybody. He can teach even under mango tree. He starts his lecturer the very first day school resumes and administers his first test on the first week of resumption. He completes his course outline on the second week of resumption. He gives his last test on the third week of resumption.

His second tests are normally open test where you're allowed to come with any material of your choice. He gives the questions, go back to his office only to come back for the scripts after the time he gave you must have elapsed. Believe me, if you didn't attend his classes, even if you like come with encyclopedia, you won't pass his test because his questions are unique.

Mr James is very vulgar. Even if you don't remember the exact things he say, you will remember the dirty jokes he cracked.

His questions are difficult to answer if you don't have high IQ. So people started smuggling his question paper. So he devised a new method. After distributing question paper, he will ask you all to disregard the questions and instead write down at the back of the paper a new set of questions he would dictate.

It's a crime to write your name on your answer booklet. Write only your registration number for him. He doesn't want to see your name.

Mr James doesn't like to mark carryover scripts. So after marking and compiling the results, he reaches out to those that failed through his mediator for them to come and sort. So in the end the rate of failure is very minimal. But he can never fail you if you passed. You can hardly get an A in his course too.


More loading

Mr Gideon
Mr Gideon was the most promiscuous lecturer I've ever seen. He was teaching a G.S. course. I can't remember the course title, but I think it is Family Health and Emerging Issues or something of that nature. But this man turned the course to sex education. Who are you to miss mr Gideon's class? If you're a man you can never attend his lecture without having erection. If you're a girl you must wet your undies if you attend his lecture.

Mr Gideon's course is not a course you can fail. If you can't pass through what you wrote, you pass through sorting. Many of the things I know today are things I learnt in Mr Gideon's class, things like how to calculate safe periods in women, withdrawal method, gender selection during while taking in etc.

Mr Gideon's English is not great, but his teaching is. That's why even after about 15 years, I still remember some of the things he taught.


Mr Frank
This man messed up my intelligence. He is a philosophy lecturer. He dropped out from convent where he was training to become a reverend father.

Being born and raised with Christan dogma, I thought I knew enough to defend the existence of a creator. On this very day, Mr Frank was teaching Existentialism and he threw up a challenge about the defense of the existence of God. I accepted the challenge. This man used the Socratic method on me and kept asking me "why" till I started contradicting myself. Since that day I humbled.

My respect for this man became unlimited the day he discussed the epistemology of the term "knowledge" in Igbo language.