Indeed I was. I did have a terrible first grade teacher, and a mediocre last year of nursery school teacher (yeah, I remember that far back) and a few mediocre high school teachers, but mostly good ones. My parents sent me mostly to private schools. (We lived in four different places during my elementary and secondary education, includin…
Indeed I was. I did have a terrible first grade teacher, and a mediocre last year of nursery school teacher (yeah, I remember that far back) and a few mediocre high school teachers, but mostly good ones. My parents sent me mostly to private schools. (We lived in four different places during my elementary and secondary education, including Paris.) Yeah, I was lucky. And my mother came from "Jewish royalty of Denver," as I may have mentioned here. Her uncle, Philip Hornbein, had been de facto head of the Colorado Democratic Party for most of the first half of the last century. Here's a brief portrait of my mother as a young mother: https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-home-forum/2020/0805/heeding-her-invitation-six-decades-later
Indeed I was. I did have a terrible first grade teacher, and a mediocre last year of nursery school teacher (yeah, I remember that far back) and a few mediocre high school teachers, but mostly good ones. My parents sent me mostly to private schools. (We lived in four different places during my elementary and secondary education, including Paris.) Yeah, I was lucky. And my mother came from "Jewish royalty of Denver," as I may have mentioned here. Her uncle, Philip Hornbein, had been de facto head of the Colorado Democratic Party for most of the first half of the last century. Here's a brief portrait of my mother as a young mother: https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-home-forum/2020/0805/heeding-her-invitation-six-decades-later