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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
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"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"
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"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."
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"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."
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"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
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"In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available."
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"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."
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"America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive."
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"I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing."
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"I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else."
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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
Students
"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"
Decision
"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."
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."
Home
"Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!"
Life
"I have always loved going to school."
School
"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."
Attention
"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
Life
"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."
Mother
"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."
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