“Wong shook his head sadly. “I sometimes think that modern education is deliberately designed to handicap a boy.””

Source: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 6 “Reading, and ’riting, and ’rithmetic—”, p. 71

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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