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He learned to read without formal assistance by staring at a news clipping posted on his wall until, at the age of three, he could spell out words.

Albert Jay Nock on Education  (lfb.org)
- Highlight Loc. 32-34  | Added on Thursday, March 08, 2012, 03:38 PM

Albert Jay Nock was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to a respectable but poor family, which relocated a few years afterward to Brooklyn, New York. He learned to read without formal assistance by staring at a news clipping posted on his wall until, at the age of three, he could spell out words.