My parents immigrated to this country from Jamaica with no more than a fifth-grade education.
I'm a little bit backward. I didn't really go to school.
I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications.
It was a shock to visit a Job Corps camp and see adults who had been through some years of our public education system stare at a blackboard where a teacher was writing CAT or helping them write their own names. In another room men were learning to tell time.
Highly fed and lowly taught.
I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.
Immigrants have always come into the country with low levels of education. Whether it's the Irish or Italian or Polish, here is the land of opportunity. It's where people come in at the bottom and build themselves up. To try to bring in people who have already made it is un-American.
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.
My parents were sharecrop farm kids with no education - seventh, eighth grade.
The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that's the kind of area I'm from.
