Horrible! I'm so grateful that my grandparents who raised me valued education and reading, as did my mother, who introduced me to science fiction) and was jazzed to be able to hold an actual Hugo Award trophy.
My grandfather was barely literate (my grandmother, who did attend some college before the Great Depression intervened, taught him), but he valued his children and grandchildren getting a good education. He could easily have been one of those people who didn't see why anyone should be educated, but he actually wanted his descendants to be better than him.
I've been very lucky. I had the talent, the family environment that encouraged it, and a government that subsidized education. I flatter myself that I've let none of those people down who made my success possible.
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Date: 2018-02-05 01:25 am (UTC)My grandfather was barely literate (my grandmother, who did attend some college before the Great Depression intervened, taught him), but he valued his children and grandchildren getting a good education. He could easily have been one of those people who didn't see why anyone should be educated, but he actually wanted his descendants to be better than him.
I've been very lucky. I had the talent, the family environment that encouraged it, and a government that subsidized education. I flatter myself that I've let none of those people down who made my success possible.