My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me.
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.'
My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
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.
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
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