Charles Best : (6)

" Committed teachers know their students’ needs better than anyone in the system. Traditionally, however, teachers have little control over the purchase of student materials. " - Charles Best

" We think the ability to rattle off people you are grateful to and thankful to is often sort of a proxy for openness to learning from others. " - Charles Best

" It just felt wrong that the kids I was teaching didn’t have the same access to materials that I did when I was a student. " - Charles Best

" I had really good relationship with my students; it definitely took me a few months before I had my students’ respect. " - Charles Best

" I created DonorsChoose by putting pencil to paper – literally – and sketching out each screen of the web site and how it would work. Then I paid a programmer from Poland $1,500 to turn my sketches and common-sense rules into a functioning website. " - Charles Best

" I’ve met with titans of Silicon Valley because they’re investing in our national expansion. I’ve had lunch with Claire Danes because she sees DonorsChoose.org as the best way to help students in public schools. I would never, ever rub shoulders with such people if I had followed the typical career path in investment banking or whatever. " - Charles Best