Is There a Loophole in Our Education System?

"I grew up, you know, with that whole adage of respect to elders and all of that. But all my grandparents never had a shot at university education," he says. "My grandfather was the brightest kid in his middle school." He got a scholarship to a Catholic school when he was 13 to go to high school. His father, who was a coal miner, didn't... I don't know really whether my grandfather was scared to go to school, where his father wanted him to go straight to work.