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My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

— Robert B. Laughlin

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

— Nick Cave

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

— Jim Clyburn

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

— Jennifer Garner

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

— Gordon Neufeld

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

— Erin Cummings

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

— Edwin Moses

I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems.

— Britt Robertson

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

— Angela Bassett

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

✗Opposing Perspectives

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

— Gordon Bell