Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis
sports children play
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.
interesting parent language
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.
mother father school
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.
curriculum faces world
The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.
biographies fiction funny-travel
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
curriculum changed
Nature's curriculum cannot be changed.
children school parent
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.
english foreign four grammar high languages meant mostly
In my high school, two foreign languages had to be studied, four years of English was required, and that meant mostly grammar and composition.
along love parents reading soon
Along with my parents insistence, soon internalized, that I do very well in school, went my love of reading and my love of mechanics.
build draw loved mechanical models toys
I loved to build with the Erector set, I loved to build toys and models out of wood, I loved to draw mechanical devices, even those I could not build.