In this article, the author describes five types of teachers who remain in the yeoman or domestic category of the profession, that is, who rely more on standardized idiosyncrasy than on the numen of "personality" as a means of ensuring recollection among their students. These are: (1) the Mother; (2) the Martinet; (3) the Peer; (4) the Maverick; and (5) the Authority. These five divisions are to some extent "ideal" or theoretical, and the actual teachers one remembers or still resents may well be hybrids of two or more of these constituent portraits. But as one so often meets the specimen in all its concrete and undeniable purity, it seems a fair assumption that one is dealing with essentially human and not exclusively academic types. The teaching profession is made for them.