My career in teaching - 04
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Mr Chips,
Pictures of Emm
I was twenty-eight when I enrolled at Chester College to start my teacher training. As I registered with the other mature students, I couldn’t help noticing they were all middle-aged. They were also mostly women, who seemed inordinately pleased to see me. My French tutor, an attractive woman of about my age, took me to one side and said, “For God’s sake get yourself in with a group of youngsters and avoid those harridans like the plague.” And, bless her, at our first tutorial she sat me with a group that I was to socialise with for the next three years. I was accepted as an elder brother and the fountain of all knowledge, from making egg-sandwiches to contraception. Included in my invitation to all their birthday parties, Emma became an elder sister to the girls and, I strongly suspect, a MILF to the boys. In their company, we felt like eighteen-year-olds, and we owe them a debt of gratitude for keeping us young at heart.
I was twenty-eight when I enrolled at Chester College to start my teacher training. As I registered with the other mature students, I couldn’t help noticing they were all middle-aged. They were also mostly women, who seemed inordinately pleased to see me. My French tutor, an attractive woman of about my age, took me to one side and said, “For God’s sake get yourself in with a group of youngsters and avoid those harridans like the plague.” And, bless her, at our first tutorial she sat me with a group that I was to socialise with for the next three years. I was accepted as an elder brother and the fountain of all knowledge, from making egg-sandwiches to contraception. Included in my invitation to all their birthday parties, Emma became an elder sister to the girls and, I strongly suspect, a MILF to the boys. In their company, we felt like eighteen-year-olds, and we owe them a debt of gratitude for keeping us young at heart. 
