In my best teacher, I could see two/three important aspects due to which he became for me a role model:

1. He was a good motivator

2. He was a effective communicator

3. His devotion to the teaching profession

In my best teacher, I could see two/three important aspects due to which he became for me a role model:

1. He was a good motivator

2. He was a effective communicator

3. His devotion to the teaching profession

A history teacher, he was my inspiration to be a kind person, and a sociology teacher, that motivated me to study.

Best teacher in my student life (from primary school to doctorate degree):

(Late) Prof. Christopher I. Byrnes - Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA !

I get highly inspired every time I think of my D.Sc. student days under his guidance!

He was the greatest control Professor I ever met in my life, and I value all the conversations I had under him as his student and also his research collaborator after completing my doctorate degree.

Great assets of Dr. Byrnes were his deep knowledge, geometric insight into control problems, providing new & quick proofs to difficult results, good humor, good communication skills, great manners, friendship and courtesy. (When I did Conference work for him, MTNS Conferences, he advised his Secretary to order vegetarian food for me - he remembered even such trivia details about his doctorate students).

My best paper in academic life is the joint work I did with him in 2000 extending a famous result in control literature called Brockett's condition. Our paper got cited by many researchers, and mentally it was the most challenging work I ever did so far as a joint work. I wrote a book on Differential Equations (published by McGraw Hill Education, India) in dedication to my guide. Though it is perhaps the most ordinary work I have done, it was written for college students and I could not cover some of the theory I really like Lyapunov stability theory, center manifold theory, bifurcations, chaos, etc.

Dear  Shankhadeep Chakraborty 

I think  you are looking for the characters in  good teacher 

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

My best teachers in my student life were two. The first one was my Dad, he was great in everything, examples: Manners, Decency, Ethics,  Morals, Reputation, Diligence etc. etc.., He taught me all that and more. The second teacher was my M.Sc. supervisor " Mr. John A. Borrie". I am very grateful to him alot. I met him first time in September, 30th, 1986, at School of Electronics and System Design, Cranfield Institute of Science and Technology, Cranfield, England. He was Excellent teacher, with great industrial background. While he was teaching Control Theory, Modern Control, Stochastic Engineering, he was relating every subject to REAL LIFE and industry. He used to show everything in details,  He was very generous in his teaching, he was teaching from his heart, he wanted and wished from all the students to learn and grasp all his knowledge while they were in his course. Since 1991- 2003, the Embargo years on Iraq, I had no news from him, I looked in the internet to get in touch but no luck. I want to send him & his family my warm and sincere wishes.

I will give the answer in a different way. My best teacher in life was ... the political system in my country at a time when Poland was dependent on big brother - Soviet Union (ie before 1989). It was the time of my childhood, youthfulness and higher education. The only chance for a young boy whose parents do not have the connections and accesses to sinecure associated with these social connections in the government and the Communist Party, was own work and "investing" in a reliable learning and self-study. Not seeing other possibilities - so I did: work - to have the financial means to live, and education - to improve myself . The knowledge that everything should be recovered by the arduous, persistent work and patiently wait for the results, is my motto to this day. It allowed me to build my present academic position.

Dear All,

This question requires a different look. The best teacher for a successful person like us is every teacher bad/good  that comes across our learning process. The good ones teach as the basics of the discipline to built a foundation to our knowledge while the bad ones teach us what really bad means in teaching (best teachers of what it means to be bad) and forces us to do more works than others as they did not provide the necessary information in a proper way. The bad ones teach us what makes teaching a failure? All problems inspire us, problems that make us successful and the ones that make us fail.

Every knowledge gained throughout our learning time is a building brick in the foundation of the knowledge tower we have now.

Prof. BC Morson, the Father of Gastrointestinal Pathology.

I learned from him to make simple the most difficult concepts other than the bases of my successive scientific activity.

It happened in 1981 at St. Mark's Hospital in London.

A french teacher, she was my inspiration to be a kind person, she maked me loving a french subject  and she motivated me to study more and more to be excellent pupil.

Thanks to all who have contributed.

Dear Ishag, How are you? Feeling nice to get you back after a long time in RG. No, I wanted to know who was/is your best teacher in your student life.

I think  it is nicely answered question,  However I feel  that  we have to  be general than nominating  persons 

No, I never had a teacher I would call a 'role model' and I am sceptical about the idea of role models in all cases.  I had some great teachers from whom I learned a lot and some were even inspiring.  They were also flawed, irascible impatient and in some cases even slightly unhinged.

I am now a teacher and I am sure that I have all of those failings too, not because I based myself on any one teacher but because teaching as a profession brings those traits out in most.  

Dear Shankhadeep, 

Thank you for the oportunity to make a small statment about the man who taught me most of what I know, and who introduced me to Science Research.

Although I also gained a lot in knowledge of what never to do as a teacher, from several bad teachers, my deepest recognition goes to Professor José Esperança Pina, my (now Emeritus) professor of Anatomy in Medical School.  

His lectures of Anatomy for first year undergraduate medical students were an unforgetable experience for all that had the chance to attend. He marked several whole generations of Medical practitioners in my Country.

His were the only course of which I attended every single lecture, and  I keep a collection of precious hand-notes that are still useful whenever  I prepare my own lectures.

He marked my path into Science with precious notions of Ethics in Medicine, and the urge to further develop knowledge and neverending readings. Like no other, he transmitted the notions of love and admiration for the perfection of the human body, and these remain and conduct much of the way I still perform medical observations.

I was deeply honoured to be invited to collaborate with his academic staff, and research, and imediately felt integrated as part of a special family of devoted workers and researchers. This step marked my entire life, and I am happy to still belong to this Department, even after his retirement in 2010, and to proceed with the works that I started in 1993.

Professor Esperança Pina was elected President of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists. and has several awards and international distinctions for his original works in the field of the vasculature and microvascularization of organs.

The best of my efforts are dedicated to maintain the honour to belong and collaborate with the Department of Anatomy of the Lisbon Medical School of the New University of Lisbon, that he founded, and where I feel so fortunate to work.  

All my teachers were my best!

I can not tell you a certain teacher?

But I am proud of all of them and respect?

Because without whom I would not be?

Great respect to all those teachers who had made all good human beings. Really, teachers can be the friend of the society. Isn't it?

You may laugh with me: my best teacher was my third kinder teacher, a lovely woman named Mme. Achat. She has marked my life since then.

Quite a different matter would be: who has been tour best professor. That's something very different.

Dear Shankhadeep Chakraborty

Thank you for respected reply, we have reason to respect our teacher and ,This is a part of fulfilling to them.

regards

Dear Raheam A Mansor Al-Saphory,

All teachers are good human being, respectable, and contributed towards the development of students, societies and nations. But every teacher differs in his/her approach. That makes a difference.

It's the awesome question,dear Shankhadeep!

Rubanovich Anna Leonidovna (1919-2013) loved the Ukraine, Odessa a lot, but she was obliged to move on foot to cold Siberia in 1941. She was amazing! Emotional, highly intelligent, devoted Professor. She used the techniques of critical thinking- synectics, maieutics, free associating in the 80-s.I fell in love with poetry thanks to her lectures.I wrote a lot of scientific works under her direct supervision.She saved me from attacks of the Teacher Emeritus during my first teaching practice with gifted students. I gave an open lesson, using cross-cultural approach, unsupported by the textbook and got the incredible feedback from my students. The Teacher Emeritus, analyzing my lesson, expressed her negative opinion about my creation.She said, that a teacher had to strictly keep the text of the textbook.Anna Leonidovna, analyzing my lesson, was in rapture. I got "excellent" for my practice, thanks to her support. During my thesis defense (the auditorium applauded,- again,thanks to her supervision) I presented her a bouquet of peonies.She cried,"Is it for me?"She was extraordinary modest and charming.Being a writer she presented her book to me "Roads are not ended"     

The best teacher in my elementary school was the teacher of science who made me good thinker.

Brilliant question by Roland Losif Moraru! From my personal experience, the best teachers are those who inspired us and gave us confidence in discovering knowledge and new techniques by ourselves. We also need to constantly update our knowledge, and learn new research problems also. The use of simulation software in modelling problems is inevitable. I like using SCILAB for simulating dynamical systems.

I appreciate all of your good answers and thinking on this topic.

Thanks a lot to all.

Very good question, dear Shankhadeep! This question can ask only a good student who have met in his life a good teacher. This question has multifactor meaning. Good teacher should be good specialist, capable to systematize and clarify the subject, good man and, therefore, good  communicator but more important he should be simultaneously good motivator who can inspire students and force to thinking every time and to find decision during all life. It is a great happiness to meet such a teacher. 

Thank you Sergei, Barbara and all other friends.

It is difficult for me to single out one person as my best teacher (whether on school level or university level) because a good number of them were excellent, indeed. I admired those excellent teachers who impressed me a lot in different ways (such as knowledge, kindness, care, brainstorming...etc.) and that was the reason behind my dedication of my PhD thesis which read as " To All My Teachers, Past & Present".

@Shankhadeep, my best teacher was a Chinese lady who taught me English and Science when I was in Primary 6.  Her name is Mrs Ooi.  I was studying at Green Lane Convent.  Her own daughter was in our class, but she was always professional and just to all students.  Next to my own father who taught me English (from 2 years), I benefited most from Mrs Ooi.  She encouraged us to do lots of creative writing and scientific reports.  Later in my student career, I continue to remember her encouragement and the passion she had for teaching.  (I studied in the same school as Nichol David, our national squash champion.)

http://skcglpp.edu.my/

http://www.streetdirectory.com.my/businessfinder/malaysia/penang/company_detail.php?companyid=109540&branchid=102970

Dear Miranda Yeoh - It appears that you are also a good teacher at Malaysia. If your students read your answers in ResearchGate, I hope they comment on your teaching and inspiration in this query-thread. Have a good day!

Thanks @Sundar.  My students are young.  After this year in college, most of them will get into varsities.  The favorite courses are medicine, dentistry, pharmacology and engineering, but these are the critical courses.  That's why I work hard to help them to be competent.  (My students aren't on RG, and many colleagues aren't interested in research.  My RG friends like Prof Kamal are like my brothers.)

@Shankhadeep and all friends, a great teacher has opportunity to develop coherent human capital and create safe academic environments that increase student learning through positive behavior management.  This is our mission.

http://www.air.org/project/center-great-teachers-and-leaders

I like the students in Malaysia. I was very fortunate to visit Malaysia at least once as it is a great country. Thanks to an invitation from Universiti Sains Malaysia, I visited their Penang campus in 2013 to conduct a MATLAB workshop. I visited a Buddhist temple at Penang, and it was so great as I follow Buddha. I wish to visit Penang again!

Dear  Shankhadeep,

I always admired my professor of structures:

Prof. Carmo Tsuguinori Yassuda - (soil mechanics)

Prof. Pietro Candreva -(reinforced concrete)

And my first teacher, who literate me, without which I would not learn the rest: Prof.. Jane (can not remember her surname).

Vanessa

In my student life, I have learned a lot from many. Not only teachers but also from the colleagues, non-teaching staffs. To be specific about the teachers only, I am deeply indebted to my teachers Dr. Darshana Patil, Dr. Geetha Menon, Dr. Meenakshi Vaidya, Late Dr. Shraddha Shimpi, Dr. Avinash Dixit, Mr. Dheeraj Yadav, Mr. Bindu Pandey and Mr. Suresh Tiwari for inculcating the scientific interest in me. I indeed feel privileged to be their student. 

I would like to mention about all the peers in this RG group as they all are guiding, motivating, supporting with their great thoughts as and when required to not only me but also other budding researchers. Through this thread, I would like to thank them from the bottom of my heart.

Thanks Bhavesh Tiwari