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You also had a family that believed in education, a granddad who wanted you to read what from quite a young age. he used to give me lots and lots of books from a very young age. even when i was at university, he was sending me books he picked up at second hand shops telling me that i should continue to expand my thinking and challenge myself. for me, it's about education being something that matters to us all right throughout our lives. it's not something that ends when you leave the classroom. for lots of working class people in particular, that value on self—education, on making that impac...

When you leave the classroom. for lots of working class people in particular that value on self—education, on making that impact yourself. that's why a lot of the miners�* halls and miners�* wellfares in my constituency had libraries and had newspapers because they knew that education was what would make the biggest difference for working class people. and was your granddad getting you, as it were, educational books or just great stories? just absolutely everything. so everything from denis healey to tony benn to agatha christie, french history, the lot. he just felt there was so much ri...

Illiterate parents in abject poverty he morning as one of america's perhaps best presidents who would lead us through a war and emancipate all enslaved people. >> he was an amazing person. today we would call him gifted. he had ambition. >> frederick douglass had it a whole lot worse. he was born a slave. he wasn't satisfied with that. he wanted freedom for himself and freedom for all. once free from bondage douglas continued his self education. he started a newspaper and was a whrekturer around the world. >> he didn't want another country. he wanted to make his stand here. almost in biblical ...

Illiterate parents in abject poverty he morning as one of america's perhaps best presidents who would lead us through a war and emancipate all enslaved people. >> he was an amazing person. today we would call him gifted. he had ambition. >> frederick douglass had it a whole lot worse. he was born a slave. he wasn't satisfied with that. he wanted freedom for himself and freedom for all. once free from bondage douglas continued his self education. he started a newspaper and was a whrekturer around the world. >> he didn't want another country. he wanted to make his stand here. almost in biblical ...

Illiterate parents in abject poverty he morning as one of america's perhaps best presidents who would lead us through a war and emancipate all enslaved people. >> he was an amazing person. today we would call him gifted. he had ambition. >> frederick douglass had it a whole lot worse. he was born a slave. he wasn't satisfied with that. he wanted freedom for himself and freedom for all. once free from bondage douglas continued his self education. he started a newspaper and was a whrekturer around the world. >> he didn't want another country. he wanted to make his stand here. almost in biblical ...