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Teaching students to soar
Valedictory thoughts of an MIT humanist
"Soon after arriving at MIT, I came to realize that more than teaching subjects, I have really been teaching students.... I hope that I've taught them to take flight, to soar above and beyond the usual and the expected." — Edward Baron Turk
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Photograph: Yimin Chen '13, Emerson Scholar