L. Ron Hubbard’s mother was a rarity in her time. A
thoroughly educated woman, who had attended teacher’s college prior to her
marriage to Ron’s father, she was aptly suited to tutor her young son. Under her
guidance, Ron was reading and writing at an early age, and soon satisfying his insatiable
curiosity about life with the works of Shakespeare, the Greek philosophers, and other
classics.
When his father’s naval career necessitated that the
family leave Montana for a series of cross-country journeys, Ron’s mother was also
on hand to help him make up what he missed in school.
