Elman gives a reason to flunk your O-levels
When 15-year-old Richard Elman flunked his O-level exams at Hasmonean Grammar School in Hendon, England, in 1955, his teachers laughed at the notion of his taking them again. So Elman quit school and got a job as a laborer at a nearby scrap-metal yard selling tin, zinc and copper.
November 12, 2004