Analysis Of The Narrative ' Scholarship Boy ' By Richard Rodriguez

Lastly, people should value formal education over informal education because formal education reflects a standardized system in which society works. In the chapter “Credo,” from the novel, Hunger of Memory, Rodriguez exemplifies how formal education teaches the standard system of society through his Catholic school’s philosophy of teaching. He recalls how in his youth, the Catholic religion connected his public and private life despite the growing division of education and family because he could not differentiate between his home and church Catholicism. Rodriguez attended a Catholic school that emphasized the practice of memorization to learn about God and the Bible. Reflecting on their method of teaching, he realizes that “For contrary to more progressive notions of learning, much that is learned in a classroom must be the already known; and much that is already known must be learned before a student can achieve truly independent thought” (Richard 94). In opposing the modern concept of learning, Rodriguez discovers a universal truth about formal education in which “much that is learned in a classroom must be the already known” because a student must understand and process the knowledge already discovered before they can “achieve truly independent thought.” Rodriguez uses an anadiplosis to explain that the concepts and information in school, the “already known,” must be learned by students in school in order for the capability of discovering different things on their own

In “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts” Alfred Lubrano uses his personal experience with college education and his parents to come up with the statement: “Every bit of learning takes you further from your parents". In his writing, he goes over how his eyes were first opened to the idea that school could bring you further from your parents, when he read a book titled “Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez”, where the writer was quoted as saying: “Home life is in the now, school life exists on an altogether different lane, with an eye towards the future”. Alfred’s belief throughout his article is that school brings you to a reality that separates and distances you from your parents and home-life.

Rodriguez does not discuss how his obsession with education influenced him internally. There is no further explanation of the emotions of a scholarship student. Rodriguez is successful in uncovering the mind of an overachieving student. However, many overachieving students encounter an overwhelming amount of stress while attempting to reach perfection. The student’s need for perfection begins consuming every thought and ends in constant self-evaluation. The obsession with learning causes the student to question everything that they do.

The feeling that the Mr. Braaksma, Andrew is trying express is a feeling of discovery and value. Mr. Braaksma was able to witness what a possible life could be like without an education, which allowed for a deeper value in his efforts in his own school work. Mr. Braaksma never worried about attending school, and always planned to complete his high education without understanding what might come if he did not attend or complete. Further, Mr. Braaksma understood that his efforts shortly be more predominant, and shown from within his school work. A description given was that he would turn in re-writes for classes and just float on through.

Secondly, the characters possess different views regarding the effects of education.  In “University”, the protagonist believes that he has become more educated compared to his parents, while in “Warren Pryor”, the protagonist feels as if education has degraded him.  Warren Pryor describes himself as a “young bear inside his teller’s cage”.  His job as a bank teller restricts him from what he really wishes to do; he wants to assist his parents on the farm.  In contrast, the protagonist of “University” feels that “the day [he] left, [he] began to believe it.  [His] knowledge fits [his] hands like a manicure too expensive to soil with the fact of these farms”.  The protagonist describes how farm life is now inferior to his educated mind.  However, education also affects the parents of the protagonists.  When the parents of Warren witnessed him in his new job, “they blushed with pride.  They marveled... He was saved from their thistle-strewn farm and its red dirt”.  Warren’s parents were completely overwhelmed with joy at their son’s success in life, but were unaware of the fact that Warren was actually unsatisfied with his current lifestyle.  The parents are not as concerned if Warren becomes distant from them due to the sacrifices that they have made to give Warren education.  In contrast, the protagonist’s parents in “University” are aware that their child

In “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts” Alfred Lubrano uses his personal experience with college education and his parents to come up with the statement that “Every bit of learning takes you further from your parents". In his writing, he goes over how his eyes were first opened to the idea that school could bring you further from your parents, when he read a book titled “Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez”, where the writer was quoted as saying “Home life is in the now, school life exists on an altogether different lane, with an eye towards the future.” Alfred’s belief throughout his article is that school brings you to a reality that separates and distances you from your parents and home-life.

In his writing The Achievement of Desire, Richard Rodriguez describes his pursuit of academic achievement as a way to distance himself from his family as well as his cultural roots: “… A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn’t forget that school was changing me and separating me from the life

Maintaining relationships and and focusing on who is important is one way in which I try to combat becoming Hoggart’s definition of a “scholarship boy.” Throughout the excerpt, Rodriguez keeps reiterating the fact that while his schooling grew more intense and successful, he “couldn’t forget that [it] was changing [him] and separating [him] from the life [he] enjoyed before becoming a student” (Rodriguez 534). When I was in high school, I had two major relationships I had to maintain: family and friends. With numerous extra curriculars, rigorous courses, and a part-time job, this was hard at times. According to Haley Bess, these difficulties constitute “the lows” of high school; however, “having to balance a busy schedule...helps you learn time management” (Bess 2,3). On the other hand, Rodriguez would “spend more and more time studying...enclosing himself in the silence permitted and required by intense concentration,” (Rodriguez 536) separating himself from his family. I remember moments in which my Mom or Dad inquired about my day at school, and I had so much on my mind that I threw the questions to the side. Although, in these same moments I knew eventually, I would have to tell them. When the time was right, I updated my parents, and this made our relationship more connected and allow them to feel a part of the education that they are gifting to me. For example, instead of reading a book and keeping my reactions to myself like

Education is an important necessity in every human being’s life. For some, school is just a dreadful constitution that people must sit in for 8 hours a day, eagerly waiting to get a diploma and move on in their next stage in life, however, for others it is life-saving and both Richard Rodriguez and Sherman Alexie can say this is their case. Education has made a great influence on both Alexie and Rodriguez’s life. Although both authors faced alienation due to their ethnic background, Alexie continuously keeps in touch with his Indian roots and family while Rodriguez has lost any contact that he has attained with his family and Mexican origins.

This piece of evidence describes how the author felt and how simple knowledge inspired him to be better in school than what he had been doing. It explains why he now has a different point of view on his education. He explains the simple lessons taught to him that now have altered his point of view on the importance of his education. This is significant to the article of the

The comparison of educational journeys Comparison Analysis Anastasia Mikhaylova Woodbury University Author note This paper was prepared for Academic Writing 111, Section F6, taught by Professor Rawley 09/16/14 Abstract In the essay, I tried to compare my educational journey to the author’s, using the excerpt from Mike Rose’s “Lives on the Boundary”. I had to answer some questions about the value of education, any troubles during learning process and so on.

The issue of education provides a battleground for political debate and social issues. Writers such as Rodriguez, Alvarez, and Diaz explore different points of views of school children and how they deal with these issues. In addition, they provide them with a voice in which many children do not have. Looking into the thought processes of the minority children, “Daughter of Invention”, “The Boy Without a Flag”, and “Oscar Wao” look into what education provides for these children.

Parents are begin to treat their child’s different than other generations. As Simon Sinek states the parents tell their kids that they are the best in everything and tread them as they are the best kids; the child’s grew up believing that everything is easy to obtain. When they grew up they notice that they aren’t the success people who their parent tell

This case study will describe a 13-year-old Mexican-America adolescent male, Jose Chavez, from El Paso, Texas. The paper will provide a brief depiction of Jose and his family, in order to better understand him and some of the complications that he and his family have encountered. In addition to his personal history, this paper will include the application of concepts and specific theories that expand the understanding of Jose Chavez’s development. The concepts and theories applied, include; Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, the Marxist theory of social conflict, Jean Piaget’s formal operations of cognitive

It was a fresh new school year. I was starting the fourth grade and I had officially become the upperclass man of elementary school. I loved school and couldn’t wait for what was in store. I brought home my yearly blue and silver Pawnee Panthers folder full of papers and forms to be signed by my parents. Inside this famous folder contained the infamous bright orange chat-n-chew form that normally found its way to the trash. This year though, for some odd reason, it stuck out to my mom and she signed me up to read all three books that year! I was terrified. It wasn’t that I was a bad reader, I was actually pretty good, but the last thing I wanted was to read three books and talk about them with my peers.