Remembering Miss Compton

Miss Compton's premise was that a good teacher could teach anything and teach it well! This was of course at school level.
She taught me Geography, Macbeth, Art and Religious- and-Moral education at various times in my school career. She had also taught Math, History and English language to others at different times. In fact, she told us that she had taught everything except Hindi and Sanskrit.
I remember her geography classes the best. She taught us physical geography. Every Monday afternoon, we would take some sandwiches and go for a trek - different directions on different Mondays. Once we reached the top, we would all take out our notebooks, draw the contour map of the opposite hill, or make a note in the map of the exact position of the scree, or just map the landscape. On the way back we would stop at the roadside teashop, and drink hot, sweet wood-smoke flavoured tea. Those cold evenings were really enriching.