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Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

— George Smoot

I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to…

— Abhijit Banerjee

I remember doing 5th grade math when I was like seven years old. My parents just constantly pushed me, in a good way, to…

— Simu Liu

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

— Lorraine Toussaint

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is…

— Ursula Burns

Like many Asian parents, mine were very focused on education. My dad would quiz me with multiplication tables when I was about 5.

— Lisa Su

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

— Graham Norton

No doubt, my parents were hardworking, you know, middle class. My father, when my sister and I were younger, he was a parking attendant…

— Catherine Cortez-Masto

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

— Aravind Adiga

Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.

— Ainsley Earhardt