Your illiterate father died just before you were born. Your mother who was barely literate remarried quickly and gave birth to three more children and you were sent to be raised by a grandparent. You were withdrawn from school to help run the family’s farm. When you did make it to University, you had no money to support yourself, so you had to work as a domestic servant to other students. Hardly an easy start. Pushed from pillar to post. Not wanted and not supported.
You would think this child would grow into a difficult delinquent, perhaps even drop out of University and generally fail at life.
He grew up to be Sir Isaac Newton.
Makes you think doesn’t it? I wonder what chances a 21st century social worker would have given this lad on their case load?
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