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Although I was too young to remember particular events occurring during our escape from Europe and arrival in New York, I shared my family’s feelings of dislocation and fear. We barely made it safely out of Germany—by the skin of our teeth, in 1939, to England, thence to America in 1940. It took me years to be comfortable, especially in school, but by the upper grades in P.S. 99, I found myself near the top of the class in some subjects, like mathematics, science, and grammar, though somewhere near the bottom in subjects like spelling.
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Editor’s note: In this, they were more willing to tolerate chaos and decay than the parents of another of Dr. Brandwein’s students, whose tidy mother disposed neatly of the petri dishes full of rotting material that were supposed to become part of his Westinghouse entry.
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Fort, D.C. (2010). Encouraging the Uncertain. In: One Legacy of Paul F. Brandwein. Classics in Science Education, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2528-9_9
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