It's analogous to money. Like other forms of capital, it accumulates over generations. It's analogous to money. Like other forms of capital, it accumulates over generations. If you make a lot of money in your life, you can pass it down to your children, and they will be able to add it to the money they made and pass even more on to their children.
Education is a form of human capital.
I can see human capital at work in my own family. My parents were both first-generation college students from families with very little money. My mother went to school on a National Defense Education Loan. Neither of her parents had the opportunity to go to college. My father worked summer road construction to get his bachelor's degree.