The author has gained three University degrees including a PhD seems to have it made for him, or is brilliant, lucky, or have lived in a time or place where achievements were easy to obtain. This i...voir plusThe author has gained three University degrees including a PhD seems to have it made for him, or is brilliant, lucky, or have lived in a time or place where achievements were easy to obtain. This is far from the truth and the following account of his life up to the present time should be an encouragement for you particularly if you do not have a record of success.
I was born in London, having good and loving parents and lived most of my childhood in Essex, an eastern part of London. My schooling, or lack of it, during World War II was completed under conditions in which very little learning was accomplished, most of us wondered and were more concerned as to whether we would be alive at the end of the day.
In 1946 I joined the RAF (Royal Air Force) as a trainee to become a Physical Training Instructor, eventually to be retained as a staff instructor on the training school. It was there that my learning desire took root and is still with me his day, at the age of 91.voir moins