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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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"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."
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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 educated myself. To me, school was boring."
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"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."
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"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."
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"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."
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"No one has the Houdini school of composition."
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"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk."
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"Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with."
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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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"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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"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."
School
"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."
Education
"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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"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."
Family
"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."
Time
"The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory."
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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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"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."
Learning
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