The Influence of People Who Never Got Past Fourth Grade

When I was growing up as a child, those- uh, family was first-generation immigrants. Then uncle, who never got past fourth grade, one of the most literate people I ever met. In fact, he ended up being a rather distinguished, uh, lay psychoanalyst in New York with a considerable practice. A very- very widely read, lots of experience, but literally never went past fourth grade. Yeah. And I've met other- I've meeting other people since. If you look at, uh, history, you see plenty of it. There's a rich documentary record of the labor press in the 19th century. These were people who never had formal education