Любопытное от ув. salery о " лучшем учителе ". Сразу вспомнилась давняя история из английской жизни " Учитель истории ". Есть у меня подозрение, что наш "учитель" это не есть английский "teacher". Действительно, teacher от англосаксонского (Old English) tǣcan ‘show, present, point out’, of Germanic origin; related to token, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek deiknunai ‘show’, deigma ‘sample’. tǣcan - показать, представить, указать. token - примета, опозновательный знак, подарок на память. Тогда становится понятным: "бывшие ученики Ричарда своими дарами востановили его коллекцию вин". Как видите, действительно английский "подарок на память". Но лучше один раз увидеть. Richard Greed, учитель истории,с коллекцией Кларета за 15000 фунтов. Richard Greed's wine collection comprised 300 or so bottles of fine vintages. A Bordeaux man, Mr Greed's hoard was made up mostly of claret. At a conservative estimate, it was worth around £15,000. The history teacher kept his store in the wine cellar at Radley College in Oxfordshire, one of the most prestigious boys' boarding schools in the country, ready to pull out a bottle or two for a special occasion — or even a not-so-special one. Mr Greed's pride in his collection was well known among pupils and teachers alike — among them Richard Jackson, who is in charge of the school's Combined Cadet Force. Richard Jackson, историк, командующий "Объединенными кадетскими силами" школы (Combined Cadet Force), уничтоживший коллекцию Кларета Ричарда. Mr Jackson, who had spent 14 years working in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Royal Navy , took on the role of instructing cadets in the Combined Cadet Force at the school. In 2015, Oxford-educated Mr Jackson also took on a history teaching post at nearby Abingdon School, another leading independent establishment. According to one who knows him, Mr Jackson is 'popular, very jovial and kind'.