Tepper continues to focus his philanthropic efforts on education-- from the elementary school level to university--and feeding the hungry in his home state of New Jersey.

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Students receive constant pressure since elementary school and a failure at the university entrance exam means a failure to have a bright future.

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He grew up in Waterbury, Connecticut, the son of an elementary-school teacher and a math professor, went to nearby Fairfield University, and, like many good students, decided that he would go into medicine.

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