The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing.
I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.
It was a competitive examination [in Boston Latin School]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't give a damn about - how we felt, what was - things like at home. I mean, this goes against the current grain. All they thought about was: `You're here. You made the exam. You can do the work. And if you can't, we'll throw you out.'
