Emerson vs Rodriguez Comparison Essay

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In order to have a successful educational experience, one must meet at the point of becoming a devoted “scholarship-boy” and showing efforts towards Nature. By having this balance, an outstanding structure can be formed with the help of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Richard Rodriguez. These two authors have different views and opinions on the processes of education, but by combining them both and devising a strategy of both their thoughts, a successful outlook on education can be developed. Richard Rodriguez, a scholar whose vision was to achieve desire, had biased views, which were torn between loving his family or loving his own education. He dedicated his life and time to studying and reviewing books and knowledge of his educators, leaving no time for his family or extracurricular activities: A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn’t forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student. In this quote, Rodriguez feels that the main reason why he has become so successful in his education is by reminding himself that his schooling was actually allowing him to broaden and expand his mind of knowledge, which in turn was separating him from the life he had before engaging the desire of becoming a student. The drawbacks Rodriguez had such as, not being able to spend time with his family and missing out on family events and activities, left him drifted from his own parents. Rodriguez also felt that his parents were holding him back and not as bright of a scholar as he: I was the one who came home and corrected the “simple” grammatical mistakes of our parents. (“Two negatives make a positive.”)… I was oddly annoyed when I was unable to get parental help with a homework assignment. The night my father tried to help me with an arithmetic exercise, he kept reading the

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