Supporting this view, practically every person I've met who made it from a Public School to the Ivy League talks about 1 or 2 teachers making all the difference

Supporting this view, practically every person I've met who made it from a Public School to the Ivy League talks about 1 or 2 teachers making all the difference. The rest don't register and some are harmful. The story is usually something like, "I was always good at school, but it got boring and I didn't feel challenged. Then I had this one teacher who really pushed me and showed me what I was capable of."