I went to a little country school, where there were eight grades in one room with one teacher. There were too many students for the one teacher and she kind of missed me. I did flunk one grade. She should’ve flunked me for a lot more. Mechanically, I can do a lot of stuff on my own, but give me a book and I’d throw it away.
I got in high school, a Catholic school, and there was a nun there. I didn’t have my assignment done and she gave me orders that I had to have it back in by the following week. I got up and told her that when I went home that night I would not be back, and I didn’t go back. The reason I didn’t have my assignments done is that I was out working on the farm, helping Dad, helping get crops in and stuff like that. It was the fall of the year. I just got left behind. I can read small stuff, but when it gets to big words, I can’t figure out the words. I didn’t know how to spell. I was up to the library one day getting copies, and this young lady was teaching a young man and she needed one copy and I had a lot of copies to get. I stepped back and let her make her copy. While her copy was being made, I asked her if she could teach older people how to read and write. She looked at me kind of funny and says, “Why?” I told her that, legally, I cannot read or write. She told me to wait a few minutes and she was going to finish with the young man. She came out and we talked and I got into school and the woman, Miss Lisa, actually opened a brand new world for me. She’s my angel from Heaven. Between her and my wife, which now helps me out with a whole lot, I now have two teachers. I’ve been going for over a year now. I’ll be 82 January 2nd. I’m learning to read. It’s a whole new world.
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