Which teacher, parent, coach, or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them?

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Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D. Biologist and entomologist; founder of the field of sociobiology

quite early I was picked up by teachers in these small schools in Alabama who encouraged that interest.

Recorded Academy of Achievement, Academy of Achievement interview, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1 April 2006 source ↗

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