Mr Gates pretended to release a few malarious mosquitoes into the conference hall, but the main part of his talk was to ask what qualities it takes to make a teacher great, and to bemoan the fact that so little scientific research has been carried out into this vital and rather obvious question.

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We're taught not to ask for favors, but to thank Vahe-guru, the highest teacher, for grace, for our critical faculties, intuition and creativity.

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In first grade, whenever someone made a mess in the classroom, the teacher would ask a student to get the janitor.

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Now, the teacher of this class instructed the students to ask me any question they wanted.

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The teacher in the game can also ask them to retrieve things from around the classroom, so again when they focus, the objects in the game move from one place to the other.

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You might want to stress, that their answers are anonymous, that they don't have to answer any questions they don't want to and that if they are not sure about a particular question they can always ask a teacher.

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