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Volume 27Who was your favorite teacher and why?
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Kevin O’Keefe asks, Who was your favorite teacher and why?
In high school, I have to go with my debate coach Mrs. Hoechrel. If it wasn’t for debate, I would have had a very different life.
In college, I’d have to go with several different professors. I had an economics professor, Vassant Sukhatme, who was great and taught microeconomics.I had a mathematics professor, Stan Wagon, who I took a senior seminar with on number theory. I know he sometimes. listens to the show.
I had a political science professor, Chuck Green who was a real stand out in the department.
I also had a great debate coach and argumentation professor, Scott Nobles, who was also the very first winner of the National Debate Tournament in 1947.
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