The article provides one answer to the question of what the ingredients of teacher qualityare. The findings are based on data collected from experienced teachers. Three differentmethods have been used; e-Delphi, stimulated recall and dialogue seminars. In cooperationwith the teachers, the scholars have tried to conceptualize decisive qualities in the teachersprofessional experiences. Two words – humble tenacity – appeared as an essential descriptionof the characteristics of a skilled teacher. The generation of the concept is inspired byDavid Hansen’s writing, in which he claims “tenacious humility” as an ideal for good teaching.To do justice to the empiricism in the present study Hansen’s word order are reversed.In contrast to a tenacious humility, a humble tenacity stresses the tenacious, the teacher’sportrait of him- or herself. The knowledge of the teacher is then more focused on makingoneself and one’s ideals visible and less about trying to see the pupils, or that the pupils haveto make themselves visible. Finally the article discuss such knowledge in relation to the riseof an individualized society enclosed with a therapeutic education in which the pedagogy ofseeing, a pedagogy which emphasizes closeness and intimacy, has become an important ingredientwithin the teaching profession.