Decisions

            Decisions! Decisions! Chase Wild Rabbits or Attend College.
             Education is knowledge obtained or developed by a learning process, as quoted from the Webster's College dictionary. So how is education acquired? Possible ways of education being obtained are through life experiences or a school education and either by consciously choosing what to learn or by stumbling across it. Education shapes a person over a course of time resulting in a change of the way the recipient acts and feels and how they proceed through life. Comparing two dissimilar recipients of education shows an overall view on how education has an impact on humans.
             "What I remember best. Strangely enough are the two things I couldn't understand and over the years grew to hate: grammar lessons and math." Struggling with motivation his entire life in high school, Mike Rose enters college with the determination to conquer his flaws and share his findings with others that are like him. Mike R didn't always have that kind of determination though, he was persuaded by his high school senior English teacher, Mr. Jack MacF. Mike really was interested in going to college, but felt like an underachiever in that he felt he didn't have the skills to tackle college material. Then Mike Rose met Jack MacF. Mike .
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             Rose states that Mr. MacF "tapped my old interest in reading and creating stories and gave me a way to feel special by using my mind." By reading and creating stories, Rose became interested in learning more about English and by doing so performed better. Mr. MacF then helped Mike obtain admission to Loyola University where Mike started taking college classes. With the techniques he learned to conquer his motivation problems, Mike began applying these concepts when he started teaching in the Teacher Corps and later in various other settings. By the end of Lives on the Boundary, Mike sets out to help overlooked students like himself to learn how to read and write.