An Educational Experience

Socially, a person’s educational experience has great impact ones life, especially their culture. Richard Rodriguez was born to a middle class working family where higher education was not sought. By age 30, he completed a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature. Richard’s and my educational experience was filled with major choices, one of which separated us from our culture.
Even though Richard Rodriguez’s family and mine are from two different backgrounds, our family’s values are alike. In both cases our families were the center of our home life. In Richard’s childhood the kids would play outside together while mom would cook and dad would read the newspaper, “Nights when relatives visited and the front rooms were warmed by Spanish sounds….”(657) In my earlier years, we would try to eat dinner together as often as possible and on Sundays we would have a cookout or go to the ball game. Our families provided us with a sense of security and a comfortable environmen...