Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  An haifi Margaret Heafield a ranar 17 ga Agusta, 1936, a Paoli, Indiana, ga Kenneth Heafield da Ruth Esther Heafield (née Partington). Bayan kammala karatunta daga Makarantar Sakandaren Hancock a 1954, ta yi karatun lissafi a Jami'ar Michigan a 1955. Ta sami digiri na BA a fannin ilmin lissafi tare da ƙaramin digiri a fannin falsafa daga Earlham College a cikin 1958.Ta ɗan koyar da ilimin lissafi da Faransanci a makarantar sakandare bayan kammala karatun don tallafawa mijinta yayin da yake aiki a digiri na farko a Jami'ar Harvard. Ta koma Boston, Massachusetts, da niyyar yin karatun digiri a cikin ilimin lissafi a Jami'ar Brandeis. Ta ambaci Florence Long, shugaban sashen lissafi a Kwalejin Earlham, a matsayin mai taimakawa tare da burinta na bin ilimin lissafi da zama farfesa a fannin lissafi. Tana da wasu wahayi a waje da duniyar fasaha gami da mahaifinta (mai falsafa da mawaƙi), da kakanta (shugaban makaranta da ministan Quaker). Ta ce wadannan mutanen sun yi wahayi zuwa gare ta don hada da ƙananan falsafanci a cikin karatunta.  Tambaya: Wace makarantar sakandare ce Margaret Heafield ta halarta?
Makarantar Sakandaren Hancock