Richard Rodriguez Education Analysis

Through the narrative “The Scholarship Boy” I find few turning points that I notice a shift in the demeanor of Richard Rodriguez as well as how I perceive the story. First of all, it is made apparent to me that people acknowledge him for his successes by making remarks such as, “Your parents must be proud” or “How did you manage it? According to the opening paragraphs Rodriguez is seen as a model student. Although this may be true, the first turning point I find suggests otherwise as Rodriguez conveys, “For although I was a very good student, I was also a very bad student…Always successful, always unconfident. Exhilarated by my process. Sad.” This quote changed my perspective of Rodriguez because of the negative emotion he expresses toward his family. By the same token, I recall my sister being an outstanding achiever throughout school, yet, she was similarly depressed as well as annoyed towards me and the rest of our family. This flashback assisted me in relating to Rodriguez’s emotions towards his successes. In the same fashion, I am supplied a grasp of his shift in tone and direction in the narrative.

Rodriguez begins to become more involved in his classroom by his new grip on the English language. He shares fewer and fewer words with his mother and father. His tone now transforms into guilt. As Rodriguez's public language becomes more fluent, he forgets how to speak Spanish. "I would have been happier about my public success had I not recalled, sometimes, what it had been like earlier, when my family conveyed its intimacy through a set of conveniently private sound.? He begins to break out of the cocoon as a slow or disadvantaged child and blooms into a regular kid in his white society that only uses English. He feels a great sense of betrayal of his Mexican past. His connection that held him so close to his family is destabilized.

Mike Rose in his piece I Just Wanna be Average and Richard Rodriguez in Achievement of Desire approach the subject of education from the view point of the uninspired and highly motivated student respectively. Both authors examine the importance of teacher expectations on achievement, and the role school and home environment plays in academic success.

There is so much gold in the word of God and it is all there for us to mine! I love how those who seek find is a theme that God has throughout the Bible. It is not that we work but that we just put a little effort into knowing Him and being with Him. I love what Lois Lebar author of Education that is Christian says in her book stating, “Although the Bible was not written as a textbook of educational philosophy or method, the believer who seeks ‘buried educational treasure’ will be richly rewarded. These treasures are not grouped by categories and openly displayed for the casual observer, but are ‘hidden’ for the earnest seeker who is willing to dig for them” (64). God is faithful to reveal Himself when we seek Him.

In this article, Cruz explores the role of education and how it can improve the mobility of the economy. More specifically, he examines the economic inequalities in the United States, noting about 40% of Americans only take home about 11.8 percent of their earnings. This information connected the importance to a college education and the need to increase the number of college graduates. Cruz concludes that the only way to decrease income inequality in America is to improve higher education and increase attainability for all individuals. On the contrary, this article appeared to provide subjective and bias information because it focused highly on relaying the importance on inaction not being an option for institutions and governing agencies.

The shift in literacy between Rodriguez’s school and home life showcases his childhood solace in his family amidst the overlooming fact that he is a “socially disadvantaged” foreigner in a large world. When he speaks English, his thoughts are not able to flow. His ability to communicate and express what he wants is stymied by the language barrier. From the impersonal sentiment of his catholic school filled with children of high-paid professions, to having people constantly lean towards him to listen, he is predisposed to feel distant to those who are not within his family.

Though Mandela experienced a normal childhood, he soon felt the hardships in a white-dominated education system. Nelson Mandela, son of Henry Mandela, originated from the Xhosa Tembu speaking people of South Africa. Due to his father’s position, Mandela rejected his claim to chieftainship and followed his dream to become a lawyer. (“Hero of”) When Mandela attended a missionary school, he quickly noticed the domination of European culture when he closely read the history books. He noticed that the book depicted whites as notorious heroes and blacks as savage beasts. Trifled by his education, Mandela attended two years at Fort Hare College where he obtained server punishment for trying to organize a student strike, which led to the downfall of his successful college years ("Nelson Mandela.").

In almost every country, an education is one of the most desirable things for a person to have. Achieving that is not as easy for some is it is for others. Many things about different countries’ education greatly differ from each other. Some countries have many things to help their students become educated, while others make very difficult. Education for some students isn’t as easy as it seems. All around the world, there are different limitations and barriers that can compromise students’ success in education.

education is not only learning about the West, but also studying different cultures of the world, using different approaches, ways of teaching and different media. (p.

Another main point in Richard Rodriguez 's essay was the fact that people should not give up their culture to become educated. Throughout his essay, he states that he must sacrifice his nationality to accommodate to the ideal of being educated. Rodriguez grew up in the 1950s and he believed the image of being educated required him to sacrifice his nationality and embrace the white American culture portrayed in the media at the time. In his essay he appears to greatly regret the fact that he sacrificed his culture to become educated. One sign of this is when he begins to talk about his parents after he won an award “A few moments later, I heard my father speak to my teacher and felt ashamed of his labored, accent words. Then felt guilty for the shame” (22). Rodriguez does not clearly express why he feels guilty, but the reader can come to the conclusion that it is due to Rodriguez finally realizing how far he has strayed from his culture and how he discarded it to become educated. However, he then realizes that his father still grasp his culture and he still has joy in his life; while, he feels guilty for judging his own father for not abandoning his nationality and it appears that he came to the conclusion that people do not need to give up their culture to

Upon entering school, Rodriguez knew how important achieving an education was. His parents knew how hard it was to get by with very little schooling so they stressed the importance of education to their children. With this in mind, Rodriguez pushed through the obstacles put before him to become one of the best in his class. The problem with this was

By only speaking Hispanic, Rodriguez had a hard time learning, and transitioning into American Culture. Rodriguez felt held back, not able to learn to the full potential.

Education is about in-parting knowledge based on one’s belief, truth and justification with the purpose of surviving in this changing world. Highly educated people are well recognized and given high reputation in the society. Hence, teaching is a process of sharing information between the teacher and students in a positive, caring, changing and stress free environment where new knowledge must be constructed and tested through student – teacher interaction using different strategies so that children could master knowledge and skills of desired fields including values, ethics, and other social knowledge. To fulfill this purpose, teachers should be active, forward thinking, energetic, knowledgeable, sincere and punctual for changing one’s truth, belief and justification. To satisfy these educational needs, learning should be a fun mechanism for students in which they enjoy by responding, interacting, socializing, inventing, sharing, discovering and deciding about knowledge, skills, values, ethics and discipline by expressing a permanent change in behaviour. As learning is defined as a permanent change in behaviour, it is teacher’s interest to consider teaching as a personal challenge in which students are diverted to a more progressive learning environment where they make their own judgment based on what they experience with exposure to real life like activities. With this as teacher’s interest in the field, it is a sensation for them to focus on the whole child

In order to bring greater unity in our country we have to use education. We must start educating people to be more tolerant. I think the best way to do this is to start with the children. They need to be taught in school that discrimination is not okay. They need to be taught that people come in all different shapes and sizes and they should not be discriminated against because they are fat or if they are short. People shouldn’t make fun of people because of thier hair. We need to teach them that it doesn’t matter what someone looks like all that matters is how they treat you. Teach them that people also talk differently and have accents based on where they grew up. People have disabilities some which they were born with and its not their fault. This does not make them any less of a person and they should be treated equally. People choose to have piercings and tattoos because they like it but that does not mean they are bad people. People have different religions and that not everyone is going to agree on the same things. Everyone should have the right to believe in what they want to and it should be respected. You may disagree but should do it respectfully and not insultingly. People go through tough times its part of ife. Some people are less fortunate than others. People struggle and unfortunate things happen to them. We shouldn’t make fun of that or look down upon that. We should help those people who need it. If someone is homeless and begging for money, we should help him or her. We should all help those less fortunate because if we were in their position we would want kind caring people to help us. That’s what it all boils down to. Respect and love. Treating others the way you want to be treated. If you don’t like be treated badly why would you go around treating others badly?

Around the globe in now a day’s world education is considered as one of the most dominant tool in the