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Quote by James Tobin
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literat

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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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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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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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. – Maria Montessori

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Im the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys school in Sydney. – Alex OLoughlin

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I had an art teacher whos the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. Thats where she had gone and kept raving over their art department. – Sela Ward

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