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How old was John Dalton when he began teaching?

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John Dalton began teaching when he was 12 years old. At that age, he was called upon to assist his older brother, Jonathan, in teaching at the Quaker grammar school in Eaglesfield, which their brother had taken over from John Fletcher.1