The Achievment of Desire

9/22/09

WOW! This essay was one of the most fascinating articles on education I have ever read! This article was so much different then all the other educational essays. This is the only one i have have to discuss the problems of the other side of the educated. Some lines in this passage really stood out to me. Like "The scholarship boy is a very bad student. He is a great mimic, a collector of thoughts not a thinker." This struck my becuase usualll we think of a scholarship student to be the greatest thinkers of all but Rodrieguez argues that there are what I call "BSers". It also struck me of how he felt isolated from his parents and used books as a way to escape. A very interesting article and I am eager to discuss it in class!