I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.
It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

