“‘I finished the third grade,’ Perry recalled, ‘which was the finish.’” (page 132). What would Perry Smiths life had been if he had finished a full time education? Would he have still strayed down the path of going to jail and eventually killing a family of four only to meet his demise via capital punishment? Or would he have gone to college, met someone and had a family? Although many, many choices contributed to how Perry’s a life may played out, could having gotten a better education put him on completely different path? On the contrary Dick, who did in fact have a high school diploma, also ended up at the clutter house on November 15, 1959. When it comes down to it, how much did Dick and Perry’s educational backgrounds influence their lives
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He knew how to do many things that could be considered very helpful, yet he only had the education of third grader. When traveling across America with his father, never staying in one place for too long, some might say that that was Perry’s “education of the way the world work’s.” But that is not the same as the things he would have learned has his father kept him in a traditional school On page 127, Perry’ father speaks of an incident while Perry still attended school where he was being bullied by another child and Perry, for lack of a better term, beat the crap out of him, and the Principal sympathized with the “Bully Kid” because she felt bad for him and blamed Perry for being problematic. Perry’s father then pulled Perry out of that school and started traveling the country in a “house car”. But what if Perry’s father kept him in that school, would it have taught Perry that he would have to deal with difficult situations and people throughout his life and that he couldn’t run away from his problems like his parents had both shown him; his mother leaving his father with the children and running off to California; his father never being able to stay in one place for too long. Overall, a change in how Perry had been educated through his adolescence would more than likely caused a drastic change how most
He knew how to do many things that could be considered very helpful, yet he only had the education of third grader. When traveling across America with his father, never staying in one place for too long, some might say that that was Perry’s “education of the way the world work’s.” But that is not the same as the things he would have learned has his father kept him in a traditional school On page 127, Perry’ father speaks of an incident while Perry still attended school where he was being bullied by another child and Perry, for lack of a better term, beat the crap out of him, and the Principal sympathized with the “Bully Kid” because she felt bad for him and blamed Perry for being problematic. Perry’s father then pulled Perry out of that school and started traveling the country in a “house car”. But what if Perry’s father kept him in that school, would it have taught Perry that he would have to deal with difficult situations and people throughout his life and that he couldn’t run away from his problems like his parents had both shown him; his mother leaving his father with the children and running off to California; his father never being able to stay in one place for too long. Overall, a change in how Perry had been educated through his adolescence would more than likely caused a drastic change how most