I have 4 favorites from High School. My U.S. History teacher from Sophomore and Junior year was very pompous, yet very funny and eccentric. He made the subject very interesting and fun with the projects he'd come up with. He would say things like, "I don't want to sit in the front of a movie theater because I don't want to hurt my neck and I don't want to sit in the back because I don't want to get an S.T.D." And then there was my Senior year English teacher, but it took me a while to warm up to her. I liked her more towards the last two marking periods where she taught a special film based English. It was interesting talking to her about all sorts of things. She was very open-minded and very interested in abstract thinking.

Then there was another History teacher from Senior year named Mr. Stack who is this short little bald man with rage problems. It's so funny. He'd basically lift people out of their chairs. He was completely no b.s. with whatever he said and quite often the discussions were about race and things like that. Class with him was never uninteresting. And then there was my Pre-Calc teacher who was not the best math teacher I've had, but I just thought highly of her as a person because she committed, and still commits a lot of her time to humanitarian causes.

All of these teachers were great not solely for their personalities, but for their hands-on learning that required a bit more effort than just pulling lessons out of a book. Granted, even when they did just lecture, they some how found a way to wove their own stories in to make things like the Magna Carta actually seem remotely intriguing.