Education In Richard Rodriquez's Excerpt, Achievement Of Desire

Americans today tend to believe that if you want to successful in life your have to dedicate your whole life to education. That seems to not be the case. In Richard Rodriquez’s excerpt, Achievement of Desire, he questions whether, “ education alienates us from our parents, our class, and origins, inevitably changing our minds and thus changing us” (597). Basically, Richard is saying in his excerpt is that education is causing students to feel distant or isolated from what is involved in their lives causing them to become different people.
This matters because I think this affects a lot of students that feel like they have changed due to education. Richard supports this claim by stating, “A primary reason for my success in the classroom was