encouraged starting in the family you find all kinds of extra curricular activities like music lessons or language tutoring and the like are used to very different extents the more privileged the parents are the more they take part in such activities while disadvantaged families make less use of them. i was lucky that my mother encouraged my talents outside school until i graduated from high school with a. university qualification more and more working class children are attaining that these days but often that s the pinnacle of their education and. when working class children manage to finish high school with an a b. tour a university entrance qualification chances are they won t go to university for 2 reasons 1st they don t have enough confidence in themselves it s too uncertain or they ve already gone further than someone from their background might be expected