Top Ten Professors Around the Wor

Every teacher dreams to be the best for their student. Starting from the very first day they step into a class, to the end of the semester when the student leaves your class, each teacher tries to instill, inspire and invoke the spirit of learning in their students’. This factor is a universal truth. Here are the top ten professors we’ve found who’ve made an impact on their students:

1. Boya Yang, China

First on the ‘Top Ten Professors’ list is Boya Yang. Yang is the Co-founder and Vice Director of the Kunming Sunflowers Youth Affairs Service Center. Additionally, she is the Scientific Director at the Bureau of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences in Kunming. She works as a Psychology teacher and the Director at a local school and has been advocating to advance policies of education.

2. Andria Zafirakou, United Kingdom

"There is no other job like being a teacher. In what other profession are you selfless and completely devoted to creating the right opportunities for another person to achieve? Being in a classroom and watching a student have an idea and transform it into a formidable outcome is so satisfying and fulfils me."

. Maggie MacDonnell, Canada

"Teaching represented the ideal way to connect to youth, and have the opportunity to understand their realities and design programs to help them reach their goals."

4. Mehran Sahami, Iran:

Next, we have Mehran Sahami. He is not just the regular professor you meet at colleges. With a hint of humour, insight, and the love of learning, his everyday lectures are a sight to cherish! He also brought forward the ‘a candy per question’ where he encourages his students to ask questions and reward them with candy. Moreover, we should mention that Mark Zuckerberg is a regular at his lectures.

5. Zev Rosenwaks, New York

Zev Rosenwaks is known as a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Cornell University and Director and Physician-in-Chief of the Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College. He also received his M.D in 1972 in Brooklyn from the SUNY Health Science Center.

6. John Beyers, Baltimore:

Ever thought if it was possible for professors to make math interesting? Well, John Beyers is your guy. He is one among the top mathematics teachers in the world who has won numerous awards such as the UMUC Presidential Award, Adelle F. Roberston National Educator of the Year Award. Did we mention that he’s also the recipient of the Alexander Charters Mid-Atlantic Regional Educator of the Year Award?

7. Rona Miles, New York:

Rona Miles is a licensed psychologist and a professor at Brooklyn collegesince 2000. Apart from winning the Award for Excellence in Teaching, she also has a rating of 4.8 out of 5 on the website ‘Rate My Professors’.

8. Walter Lewin, Netherlands:

Professor Walter Lewin is also known as the professor who brings Physics to life. His roots go back to the Dutch as a famous astrophysicist and former professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He got his Doctorate in Nuclear Physics in 1956 from the Delft University of Technology.

9. Saeed Farokhi, Kansas:

Next on our list of Top Ten Professors is Saeed Farokhi, a professor of Aerospace Engineering at The University of Kansas. His areas of interests are Propulsion Systems, Flow Control, Renewable Energy, Wind Turbines and CFD. With classes filled with humour, monologues that illustrate the problem and solutions and approachable manner, he is easily one of his students’ favourites. His two books are brilliant and present a practical point of view.

10. Arvind Gupta, India:

At a first glance, the Padma Shree Award winner Arvind Gupta is an Indian toy inventor and expert in science. But looking deeper, we find that he has developed many useful low-cost teaching/science teaching aids using locally available materials. The idea to use daily objects or ‘Science in everyday life’ contributing to recycling products into blissful toys for children was his key research. Arvind Gupta’s first book, Matchstick Models and other Science Experiments, was translated into 12 Indian languages by various Popular Science groups and sold more than half a million copies. Gupta has also conducted workshops in over 2000 schools and has won many national and international awards.

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