My generation is the first to get a degree in my family. It would actually have been me, if I'd gone to Uni at 18 as I was projected to, but I didn't go until I was 30 so my younger cousin got the 'first' degree in the family.
Poor immigrants who came from peasant stock, it took three generations to get to Uni.
But the majority of the family are college level educated in skills: HGV driver, hairdresser (running their own business), shop keepers (no paperwork certificate there but you have to be highly educated to run a small business).
Not enough resources for those who might have developed an academic passion to go to University. The need to earn money being the main one, as soon as you could, to bring money into the rest of the family.
So, again, the going to get the degree is not a sign of success. All my family are successful in working class terms. But each generation worked in order to gain the family enough resources that going to University was supportable resource wise.
Again, education is about education. Not about moving up a level. (Unless moving up a level is something you personally find important.)
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Poor immigrants who came from peasant stock, it took three generations to get to Uni.
But the majority of the family are college level educated in skills: HGV driver, hairdresser (running their own business), shop keepers (no paperwork certificate there but you have to be highly educated to run a small business).
Not enough resources for those who might have developed an academic passion to go to University. The need to earn money being the main one, as soon as you could, to bring money into the rest of the family.
So, again, the going to get the degree is not a sign of success. All my family are successful in working class terms. But each generation worked in order to gain the family enough resources that going to University was supportable resource wise.
Again, education is about education. Not about moving up a level. (Unless moving up a level is something you personally find important.)