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...between the ones that ... The difference in a parent who sees the value in investing in education. That was my - you know, I had many friends who could have gone to college but they didn't have parents who thought that they should go into debt to pay for them to go to college...
...remember that the First Lady came to see them, and they're going to think about that. But over the course of their elementary school experience, it's going to be that third-grade teacher and how she dealt with them over the course of that year and, you know, the hugs that she gave and the attention and the intervention. That's what's, from my experience, that's what they'll remember. That's what they'll live with - those experiences, good...
...felt that way or could even think that way, right. So you don't go to college or you don't go to the school that you wanted to go to, or when you get there you're worrying every semester about whether you can register, which were ... you know, many kids that I knew felt that way. And when I worked in the University of Chicago, I saw kids like me who were using their loan money to help their parents pay the electric bill, and therefore they'd run out of money for books and couldn't feed...
...flimsy differences that happen to kids who were 7 and 8 and 3 and 4. So when you grow up in communities where you see, where you're surrounded by, and you grow up with really bright, talented kids and you slowly see people slipping through the cracks, you know that there but for the grace...
...money, but we had two parents who loved us, a father that had a steady job all of his life. We had a strong external family unit. I grew up with grandparents and uncles and aunts. People didn't go to college, but you had Christmas dinner together. You know, they were just this huge, strong support system. The neighborhood that I lived in wasn't wealthy, but it wasn't crime-ridden, so you could play in the streets, and there were gangs, but there weren't gangs that would keep you from going to school...