Every teacher who did their job reasonably competently, which was 80% or more of them.

My computer science teacher telling me I should never give up, it was the only class worth attending.

But I also had mad respect for my PE teacher. I was so bad I would’ve failed the class if he had given me the actual grade he was supposed to give. So he got all of the students together and gave a speech about not failing anyone in the class and if someone was pissed about it, they could discuss it with him personally. Nobody did and I passed.

Shamelessly telling dad jokes at every opportunity.

Gave me a burnt copy of Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien

I’m old. They focused on the subjects they were paid to teach with varying levels of success.

Man, that sounds so extremely alternative given today’s society.

I didn’t quite meet the grade threshold to take their class, but spoke to them and voiced my enthusiasm for the subject matter, and they allowed me to take the class.

I hated languages in school because besides grammar and word mistakes, grading always felt arbitrary. However, that teacher recognized that I struggled, gave me a generalized template and said “If you do it like that, you get a good grade”. I did it like that and got a good grade (we have 1 (perfect) - 6 (trash) and I improved from 4- to 2+ which is quite a big leap). So yea, that was the first time that I perceived that subject and a teacher of that subject as something real and not bs.