Klampe, an evil teacher (114)

  In English/En inglés Klampe, an evil teacher (114) Ingmar Bergman, the famous Swedish director, wrote the manuscript for the movie Hets that deals with the sadistic teacher of latins, called Caligula. One of his pupils is Jan-Erik Widgren who´s going to pass his examination. There is a girl, Bertha, who works in a tobacco shop where Widgren and Caligula are clients. Widgrens parents are very demanding and want him to pass his examination. When he gets involved in a drama around Bertha the pressure increases. On Youtube You can watch the movie here. I never had a teacher that sadistic as Caligula, but when I think back on my time as a student is there one teacher who can make me feel stress even after 50 years. It´s teacher of math who causes these feelings. We called him “Klampe”. The verb “klampa” in Swedish means to tramp, walk with heavy steps, and a person who walks in this way can be called Klampe. Moreover I remember his pants, a little short, which gave him a somewhat silly impression, but, believe me, nobody in Samrealskolan inTierp  dared laugh at him. That could have bad consequenses, in the classroom. Klampe liked very much to let pupils do exercises at the blackboard. For those who had nerves made of steel or had done their homework well it was peace of cake, but for the person that hadn´t done his homework, o dear…. One of those pupils was I. I wasn´t interested in math and with a teacher like Klampe I liked it even less. I don´t know whether Klampe had seen the movie Hets, but I realized after having seen it as a grownup, that Klampe had talent for acting as Caligula. Hi used this method. He chose a pupil he knew hadn´t done his homework (me for instance) and asked him to solve some math problems on the blackboard. When the pupil showed his ignorance, Klampe made fun of him. Like the dictator he was he urged the other pupils to participate in the baiting and they had to laugh at the poor pupil at the blackboard. With the pointer in his hand he pointed out every evil word with it, slovenly placed in the chair, enjoying the pupil´s misfortune.  Yes, it could be really horrible to be young one in such classes. I remember that sometimes I dreamed about him, I heard his heavy steps in the corridor before he opened the classroom door. I also think that he was the cause of that I had to end my studies there and go back to the elementary school where I came from. I didn´t like that school. In this kind of school, samrealskola,  the pupils  where in the elementary school until year six and from year seven they went to samrealskolan four years to end with an education of ten years. The other ones who didn´t choose samrealskolan, studied eight years in the junior school and the elementary school. And I had to return to the elementary school to go there the last year, year eight. I felt some comfort when I heard that Klampe had gone beyond the limits when he had an oral examen in history (he was a history teacher as well) and that he had called a girl imbecile so she got a break down and that the headmaster had given him a reprimand for not having behaved according to the rules. Luckily enough I didn´t have more teachers as evil as Klampe and life and time make things disappear deeply in the mind. I don´t think I´ve been like this in my carrier (if it is a carrier) as a teacher in the Swedish school. But I wanted You to know a little about him and I think this will do.   Klampe, an evil teacher (114) Ingmar Bergman, the famous Swedish director, wrote the manuscript for the movie Hets that deals with the sadistic teacher of latins, called Caligula. One of his pupils is Jan-Erik Widgren who´s going to pass his examination. There is a girl, Bertha, who works in a tobacco shop where Widgren and Caligula are clients. Widgrens parents are very demanding and want him to pass his examination. When he gets involved in a drama around Bertha the pressure increases. On Youtube You can watch the movie here. I never had a teacher that sadistic as Caligula, but when I think back on my time as a student is there one teacher who can make me feel stress even after 50 years. It´s teacher of math who causes these feelings. We called him “Klampe”. The verb “klampa” in Swedish means to tramp, walk with heavy steps, and a person who walks in this way can be called Klampe. Moreover I remember his pants, a little short, which gave him a somewhat silly impression, but, believe me, nobody in Samrealskolan inTierp  dared laugh at him. That could have bad consequenses, in the classroom. Klampe liked very much to let pupils do exercises at the blackboard. For those who had nerves made of steel or had done their homework well it was peace of cake, but for the person that hadn´t done his homework, o dear…. One of those pupils was I. I wasn´t interested in math and with a teacher like Klampe I liked it even less. I don´t know whether Klampe had seen the movie Hets, but I realized after having seen it as a grownup, that Klampe had talent for acting as Caligula. Hi used this method. He chose a pupil he knew hadn´t done his homework (me for instance) and asked him to solve some math problems on the blackboard. When the pupil showed his ignorance, Klampe made fun of him. Like the dictator he was he urged the other pupils to participate in the baiting and they had to laugh at the poor pupil at the blackboard. With the pointer in his hand he pointed out every evil word with it, slovenly placed in the chair, enjoying the pupil´s misfortune.  Yes, it could be really horrible to be young one in such classes. I remember that sometimes I dreamed about him, I heard his heavy steps in the corridor before he opened the classroom door. I also think that he was the cause of that I had to end my studies there and go back to the elementary school where I came from. I didn´t like that school. In this kind of school, samrealskola,  the pupils  where in the elementary school until year six and from year seven they went to samrealskolan four years to end with an education of ten years. The other ones who didn´t choose samrealskolan, studied eight years in the junior school and the elementary school. And I had to return to the elementary school to go there the last year, year eight. I felt some comfort when I heard that Klampe had gone beyond the limits when he had an oral examen in history (he was a history teacher as well) and that he had called a girl imbecile so she got a break down and that the headmaster had given him a reprimand for not having behaved according to the rules. Luckily enough I didn´t have more teachers as evil as Klampe and life and time make things disappear deeply in the mind. I don´t think I´ve been like this in my carrier (if it is a carrier) as a teacher in the Swedish school. But I wanted You to know a little about him and I think this will do.