Meet Peter Augustin, a worldwide renowned Modern Surrealistic painter and featured artist of the Coromind magazine’s March 2023 edition. Hi! I am Peter Augustin. Growing up I loved to read
It never ceases to amaze me how young minds soak up knowledge naturally through play and interaction. A child can learn several languages at the same time and not confuse them when speaking. But suddenly, at age five or six, they are required to slot into an education system and change the way they learn, often being forced into learning styles that don’t suit their abilities. Of course, with classes of 25 or more, teachers are restricted in how they teach.
Despite having a myriad mixed feelings about education, I eventually became a high school teacher of accounting, economics, and any other subject they didn’t have a teacher for. I remember spending nights at my maths teacher colleague Bill’s house learning the year 11 maths for the next day’s lesson and going to class hoping like hell the bright students wouldn’t ask me questions I couldn’t answer. Parent teacher nights were interesting, with some parents blaming me for their little Johnny’s bad exam results. In very polite language I would tell them that their little darling was in fact a lazy little sod, or words to that effect. One frustrated father, who was a friend of the principal, threatened to try to get me fired over his son’s poor exam results.
This trick is called Shuv Tailgrab Shuv, and it is a great example of creativity because I have never seen anyone else trying it. The Shuv Tailgrab Shuv is one of my most recent tricks. I would give it a 6/10 difficulty, mainly because of its uniqueness and the fact that first, the board spins a 180 under your feet, then you grab the board, and then spin it the other 180. I find the trick a little bit challenging, but that adds to the fun!
I left high school in December 1968 with no idea what I would do in the coming year. In fact,
I never even considered what I would do until my father asked me one day “What are you going to do son?”
Meet Peter Augustin, a worldwide renowned Modern Surrealistic painter and featured artist of the Coromind
It never ceases to amaze me how young minds soak up knowledge naturally through play and interaction. A child can learn several languages at the same time and not confuse them when speaking. But suddenly, at age five or six, they are required to slot into an education system and change the way they learn, often being forced into learning styles that don’t suit their abilities. Of course, with classes of 25 or more, teachers are restricted in how they teach.
Despite having a myriad mixed feelings about education, I eventually became a high school teacher of accounting, economics, and any other subject they didn’t have a teacher for. I remember spending nights at my maths teacher colleague Bill’s house learning the year 11 maths for the next day’s lesson and going to class hoping like hell the bright students wouldn’t ask me questions I couldn’t answer. Parent teacher nights were interesting, with some parents blaming me for their little Johnny’s bad exam results. In very polite language I would tell them that their little darling was in fact a lazy little sod, or words to that effect. One frustrated father, who was a friend of the principal, threatened to try to get me fired over his son’s poor exam results.
This trick is called Shuv Tailgrab Shuv, and it is a great example of creativity because I have never seen anyone else trying it. The Shuv Tailgrab Shuv is one of my most recent tricks. I would give it a 6/10 difficulty, mainly because of its uniqueness and the fact that first, the board spins a 180 under your feet, then you grab the board, and then spin it the other 180. I find the trick a little bit challenging, but that adds to the fun!
I left high school in December 1968 with no idea what I would do in the coming year. In fact,
I never even considered what I would do until my father asked me one day “What are you going to do son?”
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