Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.
Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.
I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.
Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.
I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.
I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.