The Importance of Education

My father never spoke about ethnic discrimination. He just didn't feel it. On the contrary, he was very grateful and felt that he received many opportunities. In 1925, he graduated from the teacher's seminary in Jerusalem. Three years later, in 1928, he got married and was sent as a Hebrew teacher to the children of the Jews of Aleppo. You know, Syrians who had immigrated to America. They had a difficult life, very difficult. And poverty then, it meant you were hungry. Not like today, where poverty is some sort of statistical definition. Today, there's a line. But back then... And he said, I'm poor, meant hungry. Simple.