![]() ![]() ![]() He had no prospects of education beyond high school, so getting the diploma seemed pointless. With only a few credits left before high school graduation, Linderer dropped out. If parents and young ones are motivated to pursue divine education, the quest for higher secular education becomes less and less of an issue. Close to high school graduation he let his plans slip to a couple of his Jehovah's Witness friends. Still, he knew that he wanted to study, so he decided to keep his ambitions a secret and figure out a way to attend on his own. The view that higher education is spiritually dangerous is very common among Witnesses, and for Linderer, it meant that his parents wouldn't support him going to college. The organization that Linderer is talking about is the Watchtower: the governing organization of Jehovah's Witnesses. "My dad told me that he knew people who were into science, and it dragged them right out of the organization, right out of the truth." "I knew that it wasn't going to be encouraged that I get an education," Linderer says. But he realized at a young age that wasn't going to be a possibility. ![]() By the time he got to high school, Linderer knew that he wanted to go to college for something in the sciences: physics, oceanography, something in that realm. He grew up a Jehovah's Witness, and like many others in the faith, he was homeschooled his whole life. Growing up on Long Island, Zachary Linderer was obsessed with science. Zachary Linderer said he wanted to go to college to major in the field of science, but growing up as a Jehovah's Witness, higher education was prohibited by his parents. ![]()
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