Know About The Teachers Who Mentored These Successful People

The man who revolutionized technology, Steve Jobs has been a mentor to many. However, we often wonder who it was that inspired and taught him to realise the kind of success he saw. The Apple Co-founder was not very attentive at class. During his fourth grade, Imogene Teddy Hill made Steve develop an interest in learning.
“She was one of the saints of my life. She taught an advanced fourth grade class, and it took her about a month to get hip to my situation. She bribed me into learning,” said Jobs as quoted on allaboutstevejobs.com.

Jobs used to be lured with candy and $5 by Hill to pay attention in class.

Master-blaster Sachin Tendulkar, one of the rarest gems in cricket, was greatly inspired by his coach and mentor Ramakant Achrekar. He is most famous for coaching young cricketers at Shivaji Park in Dadar in Mumbai. He has been a selector for the Mumbai cricket team as well. On Twitter, Sachin posted a photo of him being taught by Achrekar and wrote, “Dream begins with a teacher, who believes in you, who hugs and pushes you and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.”

The American media proprietor, talk show host of the famed ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ was inspired by her fourth-grade teacher Mrs. Duncan. "I know I wouldn’t be where I am today without my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Duncan,” said Winfrey in an interview. The reason for this is, Duncan believed in her and made her embrace a love of learning.

The president of the USA has been a teacher himself in the initial phase of his life. He spent 12 years as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, where he taught constitutional law and race theory. And as a great leader, he didn’t forget to thank his teachers enough for being the man that he is today. On Twitter, Obama had thanked his fifth grade teacher, Ms Mabel Hefty for inspiring him.

“The first time she called on me, I wished she hadn't. In fact, I wished I were just about anywhere else but at that desk, in that room of children staring at me. But over the course of that year, Ms. Hefty taught me that I had something to say -- not in spite of my differences, but because of them. She made every single student in that class feel special,” Obama detailed about Ms Hefty.