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Today most certainly, the most important part of our society is the education of our children.
All of my work has been dedicated to trying to ensure that children that don't have opportunities
to learn, that don't have opportunities to go to college are given those opportunities.
I was very sick as a young child and it was during the polio epidemic, and I was in a
ward because there were no beds, and I was the only person in that ward that wasn't on
welfare. It made me realize that the opportunity structure for some families was very different
than opportunities that I had had and I thought, I would like to do something to change people's
lives and how can I do this. And it became very clear to me because I had always you
know as a child, played the teacher that this would be something that I could do to make
a difference in people's lives by going into education and seeing if I couldn't help kids
learn how to read and be given opportunities that they didn't have. College students have
ideas about how they want to think about the world, fit into the world, and what they want
to do as adults. They have an enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge that makes it all worthwhile.