Burning the Midnight Oil
Oddly, the answer is no.
I have to breathe and close my eyes, take my time before this means something to me. I have always been made to believe, I have always thought, that education is very, very important.
As a matter of fact, a lot of poor parents put this on top of their agenda. They can be overheard telling their children: “Your education is the only inheritance that we can give to you.” The unspoken plea: please graduate and take us out of this pitiable, desolate, godforsaken place. So they sell their only cow, the grains, their time, sometimes their souls, just so their children can go to school.
But there is Bill Gates.