At age seven - after spending 12 weeks in a one room schoolhouse with 39 other students of all ages - Tom's overworked short tempered teacher lost his patience with the child's persistent questioning and relatively self centered behavior. ... Meanwhile, he developed a habit of gleaning whatever he could from the best publications he could find on given subjects and from knowledgeable associates, always remembering that they might be committed to "preconceived dogma and associated error." ... By age 13, mini-publishing was netting Tom more than ten dollars a day, and he was proudly...

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