Lean’s father had fallen in love with a widow. In 1921, the family moved to a smaller house and left their Quaker group because their marriage was coming to an end. He did not read and he had no interest in sports, so he would sit and stare into space for hours. When his parents adopted a forceful attitude to motivate him to study, Lean would simply remain silent, which became a lifelong habit. Although both sides of the family had been quite successful, Lean did so badly in school as a child that the teacher told his parents he would probably never be able to read and write. His father’s side of the family were famous Quaker educators and headmasters, while his mother’s side were also Quakers but engineers. David Lean’s father was a chartered accountant and was already a partner in an accounting firm when Lean was born on March 25, 1908, so the family was considered well-off.
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