Self-Improvement
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As the hand approached 8:00 am, a punctilious mid-aged man rushed into the classroom. He settled himself down and took from his worn brown leather book bag a stack of paper, which appeared to be the class syllabus. When the clock pointed at 8:10am, he passed out the syllabus; I quickly skipped to t ....
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.... participate in class discussions, but I did not care at the time. However he got my attention when he said, "My home phone is on the top left corner of the page. Please call me if you need to talk to me regarding class, that statement stunned me. Never before in my academic career had I had a teacher give out his or her home phone number. How many teachers do you know that give out his or her home phone number during your academic career?
One seemingly endless week passed. Even with a burst of ....
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