<p>He really did say this about 70% of what he learns he picks up from his friends, who all seem to be excessively good at one thing or another…he is abroad but still talking to Dukies on his Mac with video…and he adores his overseas teachers and all new classmates, too.
But Prof. G… for that little 30% of what he has learned from Duke faculty members…his writing teacher was "brilliant, intimidatingly so, demanding, amazing, his FOCUS team faculty was breathtakingly interesting and made Duke feel like family early on, he takes music lessons from a fantastic man who doesn’t seem to mind that our son is not exactly on his way to Julliard, the orchestra director is awesome and generally adored by the players, let’s see, his Chemistry teacher had lunch with him and is a legend in his department…but they talk classical together, his economic teachers are brilliant (He is not on first name basis with them–those first econ classes are large in size but he takes his hat off to them nevertheless), He had a teacher who is blind last year…and said he was incredibly inspiring and also effective as a teacher, he has taken courses about two Asian cultures and thought his teachers were off the charts interesting, Calculus…well, lets just say thank god for a certain member of his class on a scholarship who is a stone cold mathematical and a kindly tutor respected by all, his foreign language teachers create a sort of second home community for him…my point is I suppose that his Duke teachers are awesome, but even so, he has to sit back and pay his respects to classmates who set the pace and the bar for everyone else.<br>
Look to the peer group for your fit. Embrace the community where your college resides when you get there by all means.</p>