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Part 2: Growing up in the Midwest

Born in Wisconsin and raised in Waukegan, Illinois, Dr. Carl Bereiter describes his agrarian upcoming as coming "straight out of Grapes of Wrath." Experiencing childhood during the Great Depression, Bereiter fondly remembers his two-room, rural school house in which four grades were collapsed into each room. An avid reader of the classics while still in high school, Bereiter joined a local book club, the Pseudo Intellectuals, where he alarmed his mother with his commentary on fundamentalism and the Bible. His remarks were later published in the local Kenosha News. Recalling the emotions he experienced with the birth of his daughter, Bereiter comically compares his first feelings of parenthood to those likely felt by an American Shorthorn cow—a need to nurture accompanied by complete bewilderment. Find out more about Bereiter's childhood and youth in this clip of the show!