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The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

K. Patricia Cross

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K. Patricia Cross
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: January 1
Writer
Kathryn Patricia Cross
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