The Importance of Education

"We ripped the rungs of the ladder out from underneath so many kids by denying them what is the latter to success in this country, which is education," he says. "In the right environment, providing the sunlight and the water and the food and the nourishment that any child can flourish." He adds: "If you foolishly believe that your kids would graduate college and your job is over, then you were as dumb as I am"