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Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

My favorite class as an undergraduate was a political theory class on justice. Now, 'justice' is hardly a self-defining term, and much smarter men than I have developed various definitions over the centuries. The class put Plato at one end and Nietzsche at the other, and off we went.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.