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I know. I love to teach too. But I’d never take it up as a profession. The vast majority of successful people who have a yearning to pass on their knowledge hand select a few protégés or write a book.

I have had one teacher who was like that. He’d been involved in the development of nuclear weapons before he retired. Incredibly smart guy. Unfortunately, he couldn’t teach physics worth a dime. He had the highest drop out rate of any physics teacher at my college.

Those two scenarios cover the vast majority of cases.



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