The main aspects that I recall from my time growing up were the sense of wholesomeness in the USA. There was an amazing amount of love between my parents and us kids  So it is true they they were unique. But that was not in a vacuum. The whole atmosphere in the USA in those days was totally different than it is now.

Pretty much everyone spent the weekends on family vacations. [People nowadays will immediately point out that there were cracks. Crimes still happened. But I mean to say that in the USA that was rare. ] It might be that some of that great environment was because I grew up in Newport Beach Orange Count CA. Because after we moved to Los Angeles County, things were somewhat different.
Mt dad from what i understood did want my brothers and I to go to a better high school that the one that was in Newport Beach at the time. But I should mention that we did go to a public high school. But judging by what you see nowadays there is no question my parents would have sent us to a private school. far far away from public schools.

America itself in those days was a place were freedom was valued and for all. It had no become yet a welfare state, nor a place where everyone was suing everyone else.

Self Reliance was a big principle of my dad, but again this was a general American principle.

The main apsects of Jewish Education that I got then were at Temple Israel in Hollywood. And later in Shar Yashuv and the Mir in NY.