Richard Feynman, we need to start working on cloning technology so that we can have a clone of him for each school...
But seriously, I like a teacher who can control the classroom, engage the student, explain things in an easy to understand manner (I hate convoluted teaching, which is a trap I think some teachers fall into too easily) and teaches the student how to question as opposed to just absorb, which I don't feel is done enough.
I also think that more emphasis should be put on "learning how to learn", which was never taught to me by any of my highschool teachers. Throughout highschool the material was there for me to consume, but I had a hard time taking it in. Looking back it is clear to me that I was trying to learn things in completely the wrong way. There was no structure to my independent learning and there was no real understanding of what I was learning (I could know the facts and figures, but did not know how to apply my knowledge).
It wasn't until I reached University that I finally learned to learn. All it took was a few lectures explaining how to learn, which could have easily been done at the start of highschool. There was so much about handling information and being able to interpret it that I just didn't know. The highschool me and the university me are two completely different people as a result.
