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My eighth-grade English teacher didn’t teach much English. While he certainly understood the value of proper grammar—like when to use a semicolon versus a period—he believed life lessons would serve us better in the long run. Rather than adhering to the curriculum, he used his hour of our captive attention to explore ideas that truly mattered. One of th…

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