Originally Posted by eema
Playing devil's advocate:

The most brilliant teacher at my law school was the worst teacher. The best teachers I had were the ones who were enthusiastic, inspirational, caring, and recognized the needs of their students.

That's law school, where you need a law degree, generally from a top institution. It's probably a safe assumption that they have relatively high SAT scores, at least on the verbal side.

He's talking about standard-issue high school teachers.