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Harvey, a math teacher at East Boston High School, had completed eight out of the nine requirements for her Masters of Liberal Arts in Mathematics for Teaching from the Extension School...
Thomas W. Judson, a Preceptor in Mathematics who taught Harvey in a weekly seminar, described her as an amazing teacher, instructing with an “iron fist” but still earning the love and admiration of her students...
...spring of 2000, Best used roasted pears (his mom's recipe) to lure 10 sweet-toothed colleagues to post proposals on the site. He initially failed to find donors, but he believed in the project so strongly that he used his own meager teacher's salary to anonymously fund all 10 of them--then moved in with his parents to keep the site and himself fiscally afloat. Since then, residents of 49 states (South Dakota is the holdout) and 10 foreign countries have donated $3 million to fund 6,000 projects. The charity garnered a Tech Museum laureate for innovations...
...fascinated with the fact that I might actually be able to draw and get paid for it. And according to him, I could improve the quality of life for people and be a problem solver. Well, I became so excited, I went home and told my mother, a teacher, that I wanted to be a civil engineer. My mother had a motto that I have followed to this day: "If you really want to do something, you put your mind to it. Don't let anyone ever tell you that it can't be done." So when I told...
...wanted to be an engineer. He looked at me and said, "Bad idea. You have not scored on your aptitude test to be an engineer. You're not inclined to be an engineer. You're not made up to be an engineer." Then I went to my math teacher, and she said the same thing, "Bad idea. You'll flunk...