The Importance of an Education - According to Richard Rodriguez

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and her words were edged sharp and clean…sensing that she was condescending to them, I became nervous. Resentful. Protective,” (Pg. 343). He did not care about the awards or praise that people gave him. He just wanted to go and explore and learn all that he could. He was the first of his family to go away to college. He was accepted to Stanford and even though it was far it did not matter to him because it didn’t change much. He left his family closing the last space that he had for them. He went off to college and graduate school without looking back on his past. Rodriguez says, “Moving away from a life of closeness and immediacy I remembered with my parents, growing older – before I turned unafraid to desire the past, and thereby achieved what had eluded me for so long – the end of education,” (Pg. 355). Richard Rodriguez is done with what he set out to accomplish since he was a young child. He did not let his family stop him from reaching the end of having the highest level of education.

Richard Rodriguez was a young man with a dream that did not include his family. He isolated himself from them and they became a distant memory to him. He wanted the distance between them even though he could have went to school close to home he chose not to. His parents were kept in the dark about most of his life and he preferred it that way. Rodriguez was a man on a mission and he intended to do it alone. From his parents to the teachers he was determined to ignore the world and focus on a path of education and he became a teacher. All these years he realizes that his education was the center of his attention instead of his family, but he was doing what he loved the most.It caused an emotional strain on his outlook of life. Now that he finished with education he teaches and writes stories of his life and other things.