This adventurous hat-and-whip-carrying professor of archaeology sometimes ends up learning more about the mysteries of the world in his adventures outside the classroom.

Michael Oher's life story was told in "The Blind Side," this Academy Award winner played Miss Sue, his dedicated tutor.

This real-life mathematics professor was played by Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind."

In "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," Percy got the surprise of his life when his dear teacher, Mr. Brunner, turned out to be one of these Greek mythology creatures named Chiron.

Robin Williams plays an English teacher, John Keating, in "Dead Poets Society" who is not a fan of this fictional doctor's take on understanding poetry.