Alternative-education Quote by Brian Huskie

“Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like…

— Victoria Kahler

“Yet there was something intoxicating about a teacher who had such absolute confidence—faith, really—in my ability to do better. Whatever I managed to achieve,…

— Joanne Lipman

“Someone once said that education was knowing what to do when you don’t know,”

— Michael Lewis

“Exemplar teachers know a good day is not based on whether their students listened quietly and stayed seated in neat rows, but what the…

— Oran Tkatchov

“though I didn’t believe everything I learned, it was important to know such ideas, such truths, were out there.”

— Roxane Gay

“that had little to do with the real world. I felt like school, and this way of learning—cramming random knowledge into my head and…

— Kevin Hart

“My most valuable lessons were not learned in a classroom.”

— Faraway

“Remember that anything important can't really be learned in the classroom. It must be learned by taking action, making mistakes, and then correcting them.…

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

“She believed that a good teacher should make a poor student good, and a good student superior. I remember her saying, “When our students…

— Kevin Hall

“In fact, I liked teaching because I liked telling other people what to do. In those days it seemed clearer to me than it…

— Lydia Davis

From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left…

— George Lucas