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I Put The Relationship Of A Fine Teacher To A Student Just Below That Of A Mother To A Son, And I Don't Think I Should Say More Than This.
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I put the relationship of a fine teacher to a student just below that of a
mother to a son, and I don't think I should say more than this.
-- Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) Unseen Harvests--A Treasury of Teaching (1947)
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