That was the way it looked to me.
I am sure I made as serious efforts as anybody to prepare myself for life in America on the lines indicated in my father's letters.

In America, he wrote, it was no disgrace to work at a trade.

Workmen and capitalists were equal.

The employer addressed the employee as _you_, not, familiarly, as _thou_.

The cobbler and the teacher had the same title, "Mister." And all the children, boys and girls, Jews and Gentiles, went to school! Education would be ours for the asking, and economic independence also, as soon as we were prepared.