"In choosing our tutors, my father seems to have hit upon the ingenious idea of engaging each time a representative of another class or race, so as to expose us to all the winds that swept over the Russian Empire. I doubt that it was a completely deliberate scheme on his part, but in looking back I find the pattern curiously clear, and the images of those tutors appear within memory's luminous disc as so many magic-lantern projections"(Nabokov, 153-154).
This passage is talking about his range of tutors that his father had for Nabokov and his brother four about ten years of their lives. His father didn't want them to be ignorant to the world, and think that there was only one type of person, so he chose a varied group of people to educate his children. As he remembers this experience of people, Nabokov's memory experiences it like a movie, with pictures playing of all the different he met and all the different people he knew in his life. He remembers his father's plan with happiness and respect.
