It's just that I'm so glad my parents raised me to read, watch the news and be involved with things that are educational.

I wish more people were raised with those priorities.
With all due respect, you seem to make a lot of generalisations; how people are raised has, believe it or not, very little impact on the person that they become.

I was brought up on a massive council estate in an awful neighbourhood. The schools were shockingly bad and my dad left when I was young. My mum, not being very academic herself, never really bothered getting involved with my school life.

Consequently, because I was lead by example, being young, I did badly in primary and high school.

It was only in the past few years that I realised that whilst being ignorant is all well and good, (ignorance is bliss etc!) you're only pulling the wool over your own eyes. Which is the equivilent of closing your eyes because you dislike what you are seeing right in front of you.

So I guess my point is that parents only really have an impact on you when you are young and can only live by set examples.

Some of the worlds greatest entrepreneurs left school with nothing...:thumbsup: