He was bloody good too - we didn't get along at first as when I moved to the school, he believed that there were things I ought to have known (that coming from a different syllabus I didn't) so in his view I wasn't applying myself. After some discussion (parents/teachers meeting) he accepted he might be wrong - and said so directly to me. That alone warranted respect. Then I had to prove him right, so slogged to catch up on the bits I didn't know...
Later they promoted him to deputy head; a non-teaching role. A great loss.
Chemistry was also just a subset of physics - nothing more than the movement of particles
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