"I want to be ... my teacher's darling."

"I want to be ... my teacher's darling."  I don't recall anyone being surprised by my grades. First, those of mathematics and then those of statistics. I always got A's. I frequently sought the challenge of facing numbers, sets, abstractions, statistics. I am fascinated by the rigor and precision that this science requires.

Statistics.

Faced with some difficulty, I relied on the words of Bertrand Russell “… Mathematics is a study that can be carried out in two opposite directions (one seeks the expansion of knowledge, the other deals with giving it foundations). "

My professor of Statistics, specializing in Public Health, used the metaphor of the telescope and the microscope. It thus illustrated the need to expand our capacities: visual and logical. In the end, it showed us the fruit of exploration, analysis, reasoning, perspectives, the power and the means to demonstrate them.

Those green eyes…

I admired his intelligence and I liked his eyes, green. Although my task was “very good or excellent", He just repeated:"improve, take risks, you lacked effort, you must do your best, etc .. " At the end of course, we did field practices. Each teacher was in charge of 12 students. It became known that the teacher demanded that I should be in his group. I suffered suspicions, jokes in bad taste, they sang to me «I want to be ... my teacher's darling«. I ignored. In the end the course was unforgettable.

«I want to be ... my teacher's darling»

Years later, I happened to find it. We talk about our career advancements. I asked him what was true in those rumors. He, laughing openly, confessed to me an autumnal love coupled with the admiration that he always repressed. He asked me what I had thought, without hesitation, I entrusted him with the jokes and how they sang to me «I want to be...my teacher's darling '". Outlining a smile he added: “they hit a 50% of the reasons, as well as giving me a better excuse for this painful situation. " SAnd he was laughing, because in addition to his intelligence, he had intact his famous good humor.