The f . Cyril Harvey's 0
aaxUll of some of the most irnpressi e
. m')' early years:
"During my early growth period, my
'mother and father, aIon with my
and aunt, influenced me greatly by in-
ti e and otherwise-during hi
fonnati y . He a :
"So hen my paren insi ed that I
take piano from
Da . ,the . er of the famous soprano
Ella Bell Da . , I practiced than
. Davis required of her udcnts. Dur­
in this period most parents made great
sacrifices to give their children an oppor­
tunity to play a musical . nstrument, to
help round 0U1 their education. I oom-
posed a couple of short that
my father ronsider me to Paris to
udy. This kind of encouragement· very
important bcca i nourishes self -eonfl-
dence."
etball for
Rochel High School, the t 0 facto
that helped me to e eel ere practicin by
moonlight ·th my other in our
yard until all hours of the night and the
upport my coach Daniel O'Brien, ga
me hen my 0 teammates plotted
against me. E ery person thi
e tra ind of encouragement from par­
en and teachers.
Cyril Harvey contin speaking of t
various roles which . paren playa! and
of the influences of hi teachers_·r11ft--
U Y father tau me that you learn
from e pericnce, and . nee most per­
ience-that of the human race-. in the
, it i imperati that-you read, read,
and read! y father quoted to me from
c. Wright . , boo , The Power Elite.
He paraphrased the eminent . .
by sayio that what kilo does to
man in clarifying hat be i and th
ti him fn:e-that is the persono/ ideal of
kilo • added t kilo l-
ed does to a group,
or to a civilization, in r eaJing it human
meani , and ti t
free-that i the ocial
kilo ledge.
The ory of Cyril Harvey' ear
ennOOlC� and MI· �zed
According to Cyril Harvey, freedom .
mor than a e of . or a e of
mind. To him, freedom· a ife-
Pf1 • lt i the r and
determina . to set life free for r
seetmlg freedom from the D()[.aat�
to illusionary or f; . f: and f-
defeati pract. on t part of others.
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