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 regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

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.

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.

My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.

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.