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Article: Don't take college education for granted
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- The Sun - Naperville (IL)
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- May 16, 2003
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My wife and I visited two of our grandchildren at college last week. We drove to Bloomington and picked up one at Illinois State and then went to Champaign to meet another. We talked, walked and had a meal with both of them. This is as good as it gets. To be with those we love is a true peak event.
However, as we were planning this trip, it struck me how much my perspective has changed in recent years. I find that I am taking the college education of our children and grandchildren for granted. So I reflected on how earthshaking it was when I went to college many years ago. I was part of a blue-collar family and was the first to get a college education. For many of us in the 1950s that was ...