Great article. Personally, this is a sensitive issue for me. I am the first person in my family (nuclear or extended) to go to university. When I was growing up I didn't even know university was opportunity for me. It was very difficult to learn about the structure of university and understand what program would enable me to excel in a future career that would make me happy, because there was no one within my family to help guide me. Either way, I feel lucky to have grown up in Canada because my hard work allowed me to get into (and afford) one of the best universities in the world. I excelled and right now I am in graduate school with little debt and applying to do a PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology. Sometimes I wonder if I would have been able to do this if I had grown up in America. I know there are some universities that are affordable but many of the best universities are so expensive that people in the lower-middle class really have no hope of attending them without accumulating enormous debt.