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[jasonlulu_2000]

My teacher was fired and perhaps rightly so, for failing to teach fundamentals. Such things must be learned. But she left a passion in us for the pure knowable world and she inflamed me with a curiosity which has never left. I could not do simple arithmetic but through her I sensed that abstract mathematics was very much like music. When she was relieved, a sadness came over us but the light did not go out. She left her signature on us, the literature of the teacher who writes on minds. I have had many teachers who told me soon-forgotten backs but only three who created in me a new thing, a new attitude and a new hunger. I suppose that to a large extent I am the unsigned manuscript of the high school teacher. What deathless power lies in the hands of such a person.

Why does the author call himself "the unsigned manuscript of the high school teacher"?

Thanks for your help!

[IanT]

Because he wants to say that the teacher created him, at least as he is now, but the official world has no evidence, therefore unsigned.

Sort of. It's a very, hmm, original metaphor.

Hope helps,
Ian
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