Question

You are going to read an extract from an essay written by R. Rodrigues,
writer and lecturer. Skim the essay to fi nd out the following:
a. what impact the teachers had on the author’s life;
b. what his mother’s opinion about education was;
c. what his father despised as far as education was concerned.
… My teachers became the new fi gures of authority in my life. I
trusted their every direction. Each book they told me to read, I read
and then waited for them to tell me which books I enjoyed. Th eir most
casual opinions I adopted. It was their encouragement that mattered
to me. Memory caressed each word of their praise so that the compliments
teachers paid me in grammar school classes come quickly to
mind every day.
… Always did I know my parents wanted for my brothers and me
the chances they never had. Mother would always say, “Get all the
education you can. With education you can do anything”.
Whereas my mother saw in education the opportunity for job advancement for my father education implied
an even more startling possibility: escape from a rather busy world. He despised the unimportance of higher
education, the infl ated grades and cheapened diplomas, the half-education that increasingly passed for mass
education in my generation.
… When time came to go to college, my mother demanded to know, “Why aren’t the colleges around here
good enough for you? Why do you need to go so far away? Why do you have to put us through this big expense?
You know your scholarship will never cover it”.
But when September came she said nothing more about my leaving.

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Answer 1

1. The teahcer changed the author's life, being the most important and influential figures in it.
2. The author's mother thought that education was the way to a good and stable job.
3. Even though the author's father thought highly about education, he despised the fact that that generation didn't have a serious attitude towards school, also criticising the cheapened diplomas and inflated grades.