My parents were blue-collar folks, both of whom worked (sometimes two jobs). Yet they sacrificed to buy us the whole World Book set, and that was enough to ignite my love of learning. They also bought a set of Science Encyclopedias, which proved to be endlessly delightful. And no shortage of books.
They knew ...
65 posted on 10/29/2016 8:18:03 AM PDT by IronJack
It wasn’t a very hard sell to get my parents to buy them. We were both very literate and they knew it was something we needed. Not that they didn’t use it too. It was the nearest thing to wikipedia.
67 posted on 10/29/2016 8:20:49 AM PDT by ichabod1
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