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> [ It was a competitive examination \[in Boston Latin School\]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't give a damn about - how we felt, what was - things like at home. I mean, this… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nat-hentoff/it-was-a-competitive-examination-in-boston-latin-school-poor-kids/)

[Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nat-hentoff/)

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