What makes a good teacher? A good teacher is one that inspires his or her pupils to become inquisitive and to seek out answers from a variety of sources, and to look at all angles before coming to a decision. In other words, teaching his or her pupils to think. It is sad that in too many countries the teaching profession has been hijacked by groups that merely wish to indoctrinate children with their own political views, and to stifle thinking. Unfortunately, this is as true in the West as it is in dictatorships. It is time that people demanded that education go back to teaching children to think logically and critically, and to grow up to be thinking people rather than clueless political activists.