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After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserv

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. – James Tobin

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Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. – James Tobin

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Graduation
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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. – James Tobin

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teacher
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I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales – where some of my ancestors are from – and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog! – Jane Siberry

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Learning

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. – Jean Henri Fabre

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Learning lines is my biggest challenge. – Tim Meadows

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Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci

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