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Internet Sacred Text Archive Home Ram Dass Youth and education[edit] Richard Alpert was born to a Jewish family in Newton, Massachusetts. His father, George Alpert, was a lawyer in Boston. While Alpert did have a bar mitzvah, he was "disappointed by its essential hollowness".[3] He considered himself an atheist[4] and did not profess any religion during his early life, describing himself as "inured to religion. Alpert attended the Williston Northampton School, graduating in 1948 as a part of the Cum Laude Association.[6] He then went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University, a master's degree from Wesleyan University, and a doctorate (all in psychology) from Stanford University.[5] His father had wanted him to go to medical school, but while at Tufts he decided he wanted to study psychology instead.[5] Alpert's mentor at Wesleyan, David McClelland, then recommended Alpert to Stanford, where he began his PhD studies in the early 1950s.[5] Alpert wrote his doctoral thesis on "achievement anxiety Works[edit]