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I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor.
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.
Going to school and formal education wasn't all that impactful to me, but it was the people that I met at school that really made such a difference.
People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?
I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn't want people to know I started my education in a colored school. I didn't want them to know I was the great-grandson of enslaved people. I thought it might diminish me.
When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.