“School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn’t worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.
This was a Catholic School in Munich. I felt that my thirst for knowledge was being strangled by my teachers; grades were their only measurement. How can a teacher understand youth with such a system?
From the age of twelve I began to suspect authority and distrust teachers. I learned mostly at home, first from my uncle and then from a student who came to eat with us once a week. He would give me books on physics and astronomy.
The more I read, the more puzzled I was…
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Kenneth Harper Finton 
I was just informed of your website with this quote from my mentor Dr. William Hermanns book Einstein and the Poet – In Search of the Cosmic Man. I helped him edit the final manuscript for publication with Branden Press. I assisted him for the last 19 years of his life. He passed away on 4/6/1990 at the age of 94. I have a website in honor of William Hermanns’ Life and Works at http://www.williamhermanns.com/. He has written over 500 English poems and over 500 German Gedichte, as well as book manuscripts and essays, which I have archived, some of which can be seen on the website. The archive is now with the Martin Luther King Jr Library Special Collections of San Jose State University in San Jose, CA, where he was a professor of German Language and Literature. His PhD is in Sociology from the University of Frankfurt. His short bio can be read on the website.
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