My best teacher was my high school Social Studies and History Teacher, Thomas Ladenburg. He was respectful of us as pupils, he knew how to listen, class was never boring because it was discussion based and when we got to class we always knew what to expect. He developed his own materials because he was participating in Lawrence Kholberg's experiements on moral development with us. He shared his own learning experiences with us as well. The most outstanding teacher I've ever had in all my years of education is Miriam Schlessinger, from whom I had the pleasure of learning translation with at Bar-Ilan. She was organized, respectful and interesting. But the best thing was that she knew how to criticize our work and ask questions to make us think. I learned more from her about teaching than I did about translation (and I learned a lot about translation!) Michele Ben