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Careers and all sorts of other things. >> tucker: so tell me how it's changed. you have a remarkable career, wrote 35 books, and i don't think your dad was a college professor. how was your education different from the education kids are receiving now? >> i get-- oh, it was better. that's the straight answer. i went to school in harlem, but even if you went to school in harlem in the 1940's and were you in one of the better classes because they did an ability groupings throughout the system. you would get a good education that allowed you to go anywhere. remarkable i came out of the harlem sch...

Careers and all sorts of other things. >> tucker: so tell me how it's changed. you have a remarkable career, wrote 35 books, and i don't think your dad was a college professor. how was your education different from the education kids are receiving now? >> i get-- oh, it was better. that's the straight answer. i went to school in harlem, but even if you went to school in harlem in the 1940's and were you in one of the better classes because they did an ability groupings throughout the system. you would get a good education that allowed you to go anywhere. remarkable i came out of the harlem sch...