Freeman A. Hrabowski III - My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, an...

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My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Meine Mutter war eine Englischlehrerin, die sich entschied, Mathematiklehrerin zu werden, und sie benutzte mich zu Hause als Versuchskaninchen. Mein Vater war Mathematiklehrer gewesen und arbeitete dann in einem Stahlwerk, weil er ehrlich gesagt mehr Geld damit verdienen konnte.

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