She said this downward trend reflected higher numbers of young people staying on at school and aspiring to go to university before they settle down and start a family.
Many were the first in their families to attend secondary school and aspired to go to university, either at home or abroad, and become doctors or engineers.
Under South Africa's suffocating apartheid rules, Borman was classified as colored and could aspire to go only so far in soccer.
His words still remain with us today, providing lessons of where we came from as a nation and where we aspire to go -- who we were, and who we want to be.
"There is a long-term trend for more and more people to aspire to go to university and for more and more employers to look to employ people with higher education qualifications and I personally don't think, taking the long view, that trend has suddenly stopped," said Mr Willetts.
I aspire to go to college and become a journalist, and I'm not going to get there by staying in a gang.
I aspire to go deeper into mountaineering and pursue big wall rock climbing and alpinism, hopefully securing a position somewhere remote as an alpine guide.
Many kids today aspire to go to university, and I have recently endowed a chair at Warwick University through a gift.
I want young people who aspire to apprenticeships to have the same clarity, ambition and sense of purpose as those who aspire to go to university".
"(The Long Room) was a huge room with shelf after shelf of books, a beautiful place, and I hope that all of you aspire to go there, if not study there but just to go there and experience what it is like to be surrounded by so much history and so much power," she said.
