I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.
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My education was an education by movies.
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.
I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.
Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.
I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.
I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.