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Well it's clear Mystery wants more grandchildren; guess you'll have to see if Ohio is ready for that yet. :-)

I had friends who had their education handed to them and it was the same thing--didn't really care a whole lot about learning.

P.S. Wait till you have one or two kids to decide how many; I thought I wanted four but after three or four months of morning sickness and then several months of bedrest and meds with bad effects and hospitalization with premature labor . . . I decided two were enough. :-) But don't let that scare you, just wait and see. :-)

Lol, well, my mom had decided when she was my age that she didn't want ANY kids and then she had five! (I still don't know what she was thinking.) My ideal plan was to have one child and adopt two. But, as my life has frequently shown me, life doesn't always work out according to plan. So I'll see what happens.

My son is in grad school. Our experience was
1. He got a scholarship for the tuition for community college, lived at home, only paid for his books
2. Some small scholarships for bachelor's degree, had to hunt really hard for those
3. Student loans
4. Grants not available unless you are dirt poor

When I was in college there were more scholarships and grants available than there are now. We really searched hard for scholarships, getting reference books from the library and searching the college catalog. Most scholarships that are available are for minority students. There is next to nothing if you are caucasian. No matter what your grades are.
One friend had a daughter with straight A plus in high school and that is mostly what she got in college, above a 4.0. She was never able to get a scholarship because they considered that her parents made too much money, about 50,000 a year.
If you go for a graduate degree and don't get an assistantship, your debt load could be as high as going to law school. So steep you'd have to have exceedingly high wages to make the payments.