Martin Lewis Perl Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.”

“Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.”

“I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.”

“I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.”

“Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.”

“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.”

“Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.”

“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.”

“About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.”