Cool your hormones. There are adults that admire their student's abilities and smarts that they look upon them fondly, and vice versa. You don't necessarily have "the hots" for each other. Miss Riley knows the boys have the best chance of being her first students to avoid a planned-out life in the coal mines, and encourages their thirst for knowledge. I myself had a teacher who caught me drawing in their class. He took my notebook, but after class he called me into his office, to which he not only gave back my notebook, but gave me a copy of a book of collected comic strips to encourage my interest in what I was doing. He knew what he was teaching was not my cup of tea, but instead wanted to help my interest in illustration to grow.
I guess you've just never had anyone older than you genuinely express how proud they are of you. Either that, or you interpreted it as them "coming on" to you.
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