• LAMB: : And clearly it would be why you did well and, as you know, you finished well enough to give the valedictory address -- the question I want to ask you though is why do you think you did well? Other than having a lot of brainpower, did you have an approach to education?

• ROMNEY: Well, the truth is that if I look back to my high school years, I give my credit to high school teachers, my mom and dad too. I loved reading and I liked writing. But in high school they just drilled in reading and critical reading, and then writing and a lot of writing.

And if you have to write a lot and read a lot, you get a very critical attitude and you learn -- you identify problems and you point out to -- inconsistencies and you recognize trends. And that kind of critical thinking and effective writing really helped me in college.

I was an English major, and then when I went to law school and business school I was able to gather my thoughts, express them well. And I have to say that the ability to communicate is something which helped me more than I would have ever imagined in law school and business school.

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