On Teachers

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I often muse about great teachers and history. I wonder, for example, about smallpox and Parkinson's disease, and about what would have happened if one of John Hunter's assistants, instead of the master himself, had performed the pedagogic chore (as it is looked on nowadays) of teaching Edward Jenner or James Parkinson. Would the inspiration that these two men received have been the same? Probably not. If they had known beforehand that they would see Hunter rarely if ever outside his laboratory, would they still have come? Again, probably not. For students flocked from far and wide to Hunter's side, . . .

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