The program for gifted children was

very imaginative and innovative.

One of the things that I as a child was

interested in was the telephone. The

old-fashioned kind, not a cell phone.

 

So one of my projects in the program,

was to explore the telephone.  I expect

they imagined that I would create

a diagram after studying some library

book.

 

Not me.

 

Instead of books, I set about to do a

scientific dissection of the telephone.

First, I had to procure one.  That was

no small matter, but I did finally manage

to secure one.

 

Then I took the entire phone apart.  Now

this sounds quite methodical.  In point of

fact it was anything but.  I tore into that

thing and who knows what I found (I didn’t).

 

Still it stands out as one of the more meaningful

events of my education. I wanted to study

something, and I did.  That is success.

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