It is often said that truly gifted teachers make their subject matter come to life. Jesse Glass has taken that concept to a new level by asking his students to take literary characters off the page and dance them about the room.

So in this professor's classes you might find a thigh-high likeness of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus bragging of his scholarly accomplishments and enormous intelligence to the delight of a group of highly attentive students, as follows:

"How I wish old Archimedes could come back from the dead for a debate. Or Aristotle! I'd show Aristotle who knows what about what! I'm the smartest man in all of Wittenberg, all Germany, all Europe, the whole world! I want to know more! How can I learn more?"