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Elizabeth Moon

"I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir."

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"I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir."

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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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"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 played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less."

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"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."

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"In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do."

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"It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs."

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"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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"While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent."

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"You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit."

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"When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells."

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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"
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"One of my degrees was a science degree in biology."
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"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."
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"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
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"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
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"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."
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"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
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"I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction."
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