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My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupa

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. – Simon Newcomb

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What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed. – Simon Newcomb

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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. – Simon Newcomb

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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then Ive thought everyone is a teacher. – Bill Moyers

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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So its a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, whats good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy. – Bill Bowerman

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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasnt like me at all. – Barbra Streisand

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