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"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."
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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
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"Sunday school don't make you cool forever."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."
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"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."
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"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."
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"I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble."
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"I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school."
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"No, the czar did not want us in the schools."
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"I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble."
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"My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher."
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"The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory."
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"The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later."
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"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."
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"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."
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"At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other."
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"I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis."
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"At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory."
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"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."
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"After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer."
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