After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father was a successful entrepreneur.
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
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.
My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.
My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.
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.
I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.