My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I went to public school up until junior high.
I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.
I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.
I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.
I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.
I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.
I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.