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My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.

— Ato Essandoh

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I went to school in Tanzania for two years, from five to seven. I started off in my mother's school with a lot of African children - but then I was put into the international school.

— Sidse Babett Knudsen

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.

— Shia LaBeouf

I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'

— KSI

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

— J. Philippe Rushton

I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.

— Eliza Doolittle

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

— Terry J. Lundgren

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

— Dayo Okeniyi

I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.

— Toks Olagundoye

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

— Robert Sternberg