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[quote=Anonymous]I also grew up really poor, OP. But college was always mentioned as the way out, and for me it was. I'm the only member of my family with both a college and a graduate degree. I'm also the oldest child, so my youngest sister has now followed me, and is working on a graduate degree. 
Apart from that I now have a career (not a job, as I have learned), I have the security that my parents never had. College doesn't prepare you for work, but it gives you the cultural knowledge to function as a member of a specific class. It teaches longer-term thinking. So where my parents planned their spending based on each check, I'm saving for a future that is 30 years away. 
It's a mindset, and I'm grateful that even though I'm in debt from school, that my parents gave me this gift of thinking an education is so important. 
The hard part is that when I visit my family I have to be very careful to not be "above" myself, and there is a bit of a divide, which has caused some friction over the years, but the bottom line is that education changed the course of my life, and it likely will for your children as well. Let them figure out the debt part - I paid my way, and I know it was easier in the 1990s than now, but I imagine there is still a way if you want it. [/quote]

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