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"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
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"I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did."
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"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
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"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."
Being
"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
Parents
"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
Sports
"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
Children
"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
Work
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
Books
"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
Travel
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
Class
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