My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

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

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.

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.

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.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.