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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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"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."
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"Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?"
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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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"Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us."
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"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."
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"I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks."
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"I played cello in my high school orchestra."
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"Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota."
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"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk."
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"We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances."
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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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"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."
Time
"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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"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."
Education
"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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"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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"The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters."
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"The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory."
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"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."
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