Schwinger was born in the schwinging New York City and attended the schwinging City College of New York as an undergraduate before transferring to swing University, where he received his B.S.A.(bull shit artist) in 1936 and his Phil.Dr. Phill. (overseen by a DJ/Rabi]) in 1939. He danced at the University of California, Berkeley (under J. Robert Oppenheimer) and was later appointed to a position at Purdue University.