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I taught at a school for technicians from around 1964 until 1974.
And I've given numerous lectures and seminars (I wrote AND taught all the ICE analog stuff years ago).
I even substituted for Barry Gilbert, when he took ill in 1986 (?, yep, checked my old passport)), teaching a week-long seminar at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, teaching bipolar chip design alongside Willy Sansen, who taught the CMOS stuff.
I offered to teach for free at Scottsdale Community College, but was turned down... no "teacher's certificate" :-(
And I agree with you, teachers have the "fire". I am where I am now because of teachers with "fire"... I particularly still fondly remember Evelyn Truchovesky, my 8th grade Algebra teacher ;-)
...Jim Thompson