Those who thought outside the box... (Score 1)

The teachers that inspired me was my high school math and physics teacher that showed me that there were other things in life than sports and girls. He gave personal assignments to everybody, I got to work on the physics of a fast ball or a long jump, which was in my interest sphere and thus made everything so much more interesting. He is the one I would like to thank for my Master's degree in Computer Science today.

My history teacher that made us live the French revolution and always found parallells in history to current world event. Event where we made have succeded better if we had learned something from history.

My religion teacher that asked everybody what they believed in and then tried to find parts in all religions that fit together with our beliefs. He was very religious, christian, but never ever let that interfere with teaching us about all religions without prejudices. In short, those who listened, adjusted, found the weak spots and trained them, let us explore our strengths ourself just gicing pointers, those that knew there respective subjects very well, those that took the time to know the pupils. Those inspired me.