When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees.
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.
I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.
Decent wages keep people out of homeless shelters. Decent wages allow families to afford books and, I don't know, school fees and things like that.
My younger brother runs a guesthouse, and my sister is a janitor. I have not given them money because they earn their own money. I pay for their children's school fees.
When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.
My mom could afford to put us in a Catholic school for grades one through seven, but not after that.
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?
No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.
Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.
I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.
At the end of primary school, I went to secondary school. I paid $12 a term to go to school.
