テーマ別英文読解~教育論④
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Just under three hundred years ago, the professor of mathematics at Cambridge did a distinctly unusual thing. He decided that one of his pupils was a much better mathematician than he was, and in all respects more fitted for his job. He wasn’t content with this exercise in self-criticism. He promptly resigned his chair, on condition that his pupil be immediately appointed. In the light of history, no one can say that his judgment was wrong. For the professor’s name was Barrow, and he was a very good mathematician by seventeenth-century standards: but his pupil was Isaac Newton. It is a pleasant thought just to imagine the state of affairs if all of us were to play the part of Dr. Barrow
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