Two spring to mind:- Mmmm, Mr Saxty - what a b*****d! Maths teacher who hated me, took great delight in announcing to the class that I'd only got 25% in a test. It seemed like his reason for teaching was so that he could humiliate children. I'm pleased to say that years later I got my own back, he applied for a job at a school that my mother was working at - and they asked my opinion of him (as they knew he'd taught me) - and I told them! He didn't get the job!! Mike Stubbs - not a teacher of mine, but worked at the same school as my Mum. He was a total inspiration (to his students, but also to me), at the age of 27 I didn't know what I wanted to do, with no qualifications I didn't think I could do much. Mike persuaded me to apply to university as a mature student - I now have a first class honours degree in archaeology! Thank you Mike.