David asked...

Who was the worst student you ever had?

"who was the worst student you ever had?" - Well, I wouldn't say worst. - That's right, that's maybe that's the wrong word, but that's what's in the question. - 'Cause when I was in Newark, Newark was a wonderful educational system. They had classes for the blind, classes for the opportunity classes, they called it, every kind of thing. They didn't call them child study teams, but there was a psychologist. And I had this one child, I could still remember his name, who needed help. He shouldn't have been in my class with 40. So one day he's sitting in his chair and he turns his chair completely around. I said, "Robert, what are you doing?" He said, "I'm tired of looking at your face." So then the psychologist came to give me advice, not because of that, but I don't know. He said, "Oh, you should go in the back of the room, "get some clay and just hit it against the wall." So I said to him, "What do I do with the other 38?" - Students while Robert is hitting the wall. This is a child who needed help. - Right. Which now, today you get it with the child study teams, yeah.
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