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My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

My parents were marvelously educated people.

My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.

The dream of my family was for me to be an educated person.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

My parents, who were split up, were so good at keeping my environment strong and keeping everything around me not focused on the fact that we were poor. They got me culture. They took me to museums. They showed art to me. They read to me. And my mother drove two hours a day to take me to University Elementary School.

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.