Drat, got here after I could make this joke cos the title's been changed!Billska said:The title just made my day.
And I don't have any rock hammers on me.
On topic:
I think it does depend where you like and what the school is like. If a young person is from a back ground etc where people didn't do well/couldn't be bothered with education then it just perpetuates. The reverse is true with pushy parents getting kids to work extra hard.
It is something that has been taken for granted in that in the UK, as with many other countries these days, education is state funded (unless you can afford privete education but now's not the time for that debate) so it's a given thing and people probably don't value it as much as those in countries where their is no state funding and you have to pay for day one to learn your ABCs. It's a different state of mind I think.
(Geology joke time: Hay man, I gniess, but don't take it for granite.)