Learning Like Albert 

"The man who instructs himself has a dupe for a teacher," quips an online commenter in the Deseret News.

He was responding to another commenter who said, "Learning how to 'teach oneself' is the most valuable lesson I ever learned, and served me well when finally going to the 'auditorium sized' classes of college."

Perhaps the first commenter should reflect on the case of Albert Einstein. He taught himself calculus, mastered physics classes on his own, studied Maxwell equations on his own as a teenager, and pursued experiments without being assigned them by a teacher.

Sparking such a chord in our students is perhaps the most valuable thing a teacher can do.