Giving children education is giving them the courage to take on and repair the world through intelligence and character - which are the two true goals of education. ... Sally's mother had hopes that her daughter would achieve brilliance and believed she had "too much talent to waste" (page 88) and therefore would not allow this leaving to occur. Her mother wished for her daughter and her siblings "to have a good education and to "get on in the world"" (page 88) with desired professions such as a doctor. ... According to her mother this was not an acceptable oc...

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• Grade Level: High School

My father and mother came from low economic families. ... My mother made sure we learned what she had learned. This made her feel we would succeed. ... I would do her chores and work in order for to be able to study. ... Most are critiqued and seldom are provided with courage for them to stay in college. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The primary role for women in the 1870's was nothing more than being the wife, mother, or farm hand for her husband. Their main role was to do chores around the house, taking care of the children, or helping their husbands with the farming. ... Although now in the early 2000's women are still expected to take care of the children, and do the chores around the house, as they have throughout life, today women have equal opportunities available to them; they have a choice of having a career and or being a mother. ... Every person has his or her own beliefs, faiths, and ideas because o...

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• Grade Level: High School