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Winston Hashburn's avatar

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Dead Heads too!

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

You are a teacher in the best sense of the word. As someone whose most-rewarding years were as a college teacher of biomedical science, I'm struck by the parallels. One does not relish teaching for the financial or celebrity rewards. The reward is intrinsic to the excitement about the prospects for instilling in others both a clearer view of the miracles of scientific discourse and a desire to investigate and think critically about the unknowns. In your case the subject areas may be different, but the intrinsic motivation is similar. In a society drowning in the sometimes barely informed opinions of celebrity talking heads, your attitude is essential to rekindling a populist agenda. And just as this attitude spontaneously elicits love -- incubated in gratitude -- from one's students who recognize the genesis of a mental attitude that well serves their lives, I'm certain that many of us love you in our own clumsy ways. For one should always exhibit that gratitude to truth tellers, gratitude being an untainted love-currency available to us humans.

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