Also having done French immersion since primary, he was rightfully shocked and mad as fuck to find out none of us were good at French and hadn't read any French literature or been exposed to French cultural stuff and he got really mad, not at us but our previous teachers for half asking their jobs cause he genuinely gave a fuck about the stuff he was teaching enough to get mad about it. This scared most other people but I loved it, he was equally passionate about geography and did a whole thing about ecological history that was for sure nothing the curriculum. Just pure no bullshit, you're here to learn, here's info, read up on it, I'm an expert and I'm right here, come ask me whatever but find shit out for yourself. It was perfect for me specifically and sucked for everyone else.