What do you want to bet he was one of the few popular teachers, one of the few that taught not the way some dried up pencil pusher who hasn't seen the inside of a classroom in several centuries wants, but in a way that interests and engages the students, so that they actually learn more than how to sleep through a lesson without snoring.

We had one like that at our school, he didn't go by the book, but after he left, we didn't learn half as well from the ones who followed.