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What inspires you to learn?

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Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 10 Arts and letters 16 Politics and public life 5 Business and finance 3 Technology 4 Sport 2
Read by age Any age In their thirties 1 In their forties 1 In their fifties 1 In their sixties 3
Steve Jobs Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
One of the saints in my life is this woman named Imogene Hill, who was a fourth-grade teacher who taught this advanced class. She got hip to my whole situation in about a month and kindled a passion in me for learning things. I learned more that year than I think I learned in any year in school.
Recorded David Sheff, Playboy Interview, February 1985 source ↗

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