[Orangey]

One of the best teachers I've ever had was my college German professor, whom I believe (in retrospect) to be an ENTP. We were a small class and she was the type that liked to push people out of their comfort zones. She would speak directly at us in very fast German (with her Romanian accent on top of it) and thoroughly expect us to understand and respond coherently- and by mid-semester all of us could. She never held our hands. However, IMO, her most effective method (for me at least) was the way she tied language-learning in with other subjects in a greater context. It just made learning the language seem so much more interesting, and it motivated me beyond the simple pull of "I've got to pass". Most language teachers (in the early level classes, at least) only extend that as far as "well, if you're ever in Germany or Austria, knowing how to say this or that will help you out". She trusted our intelligence enough to expect high performance on difficult readings from classic works of philosophy and literature even though we were only in the intermediate level. I appreciated having (for once) standards that were not geared to the dumbest in the room.