Thanking old teachers

For many of us, our lives in school represent some of the most important years of life, and we also have excellent memories of our teachers. Considering that one finished Class X thirty three years ago, where was I going to find information on my old school teachers? A google search on the names of favourites teachers took me here. My comments on the blog got me in touch with Gopal Gurram, the owner of the blog. I wonder why many of us in India are so thankful to our teachers? Maybe because we cannot really take good teachers for granted? Maybe at that age, we will did not yet have a sense to entitlement. [The latter has been commented upon in a different context here.] Comments welcome