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My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

— Dwight Yoakam

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

— Paul Nurse

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

— Ben Affleck

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.

— Joseph M. Kyrillos

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

— Anthony Mackie

My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.

— Rick Scott

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

— Dave Grohl

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

— Graham Norton

✗Opposing Perspectives

My parents were marvelously educated people.

— Stephen Fry

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

— Benedict Cumberbatch