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Sperling’s experience with the strike cemented his hatred for the higher-education establishment

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He was convinced the establishment would always be against the things he believed in. The only way forward was to fight.

The Beginning of a New Career

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Reflecting on the 1968 professors‘ strike in his memoir, John Sperling called it „one of the most liberating experiences of my life“ because he no longer cared what anyone in academia thought about him. And he decided he was going to find a way out.

The opportunity to leave traditional academia arrived in the form of a federal grant designed to lower the juvenile delinquency rate among working-class kids in the city of Sunnyvale, Calif. Sperling thought the best way to do that would be to work with local teachers and police officers.

He enrolled 30 teachers and police officers in a class and divided them into groups. Continue reading »