ABSTRACT
The title of this chapter is ambiguous, though it in fact addresses both the kind of psychology I was working on and, indirectly, the psychology of the writer. I liked schooling and education from the beginning in primary school and was a diligent and searching student in my years in the Viennese Realschule. However, until I started graduate school, most of my education was essentially in a passive stance. I went where situations, requirements, and people led me and not until the watershed in my personal development did I truly start out on my own.
