Exploring New Paths | Ryan Quarles | Making a Difference | KET

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As a child growing up on his family’s rural tobacco farm in Scott County, Ryan Quarles learned at an early age the lessons of hard work and the value of an education.

Whether helping his father and brother with the never-ending duties of running the farm or seeing his mother leave to teach nursing classes in the evenings, Quarles said he realized how education gave people the tools they needed to provide for themselves and their community.

“I like to say that KET was the best substitute teacher I ever had,” Quarles said. “What I watched on KET was an extension of what I was learning both at home and at school. And it allowed me to travel anywhere in the country, or anywhere in the world for that matter, all without leaving my family’s farm.”

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