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"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."

"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."

"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk."

"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

"When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up."

"You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out."
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"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."

"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."

"After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes."

"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."

"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."

"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."

"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."

"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
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