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"Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers."
"When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved."
"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."
"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
"Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising."
"I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that."
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"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."
"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns."
"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful."
"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
"There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles."
"You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses."
"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
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