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* By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice. | * By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice. | ||
:Alan Kay by Scott Gasch | :Alan Kay by Scott Gasch | ||
* If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. | |||
==Edward Mokurai Cherlin (born 1946)== | ==Edward Mokurai Cherlin (born 1946)== | ||