The one with a penchant for chucking textbooks on desks from a distance. The one with coffee breath strong enough to peel paint off the wall. All the ones who killed your enthusiasm with teaching methods seemingly designed to bore the most energetic of children into a dull-eyed stupor.

Happily, our memories of the worst teachers fade over time, irrelevant as we get on with our day-to-day lives. But the ones who do pop into our heads occasionally – when we think about how our interest was sparked in a certain topic or why we got into the career we did or the subjects we adored – are the good ones. The best ones. The relevant ones.

Which might explain why a video – which you can watch below – of one Dutch biology teacher's unusual lesson has gone viral recently, at time of writing clocking up nearly 140,000 views.

Is this the most inspired teaching technique? This Dutch teacher's biology lesson has gone global