Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
From Martin Lewis Perl
Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
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