Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

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My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

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My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

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As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

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Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

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I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

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It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

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Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

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About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

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