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Richard Rodriguez discusses his education and study habits from early education up through graduate school. Throughout his essay Rodriguez describes how he is changing and growing as a person. In his early education he describes himself as a “scholarship boy” ....

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.... Also that the scholarship boy can be looked at as a bad student also. It is not until a “scholarship boy” can gain a balance between his home and education, and not let education completely run your life in order to be called a “scholarship man.” That is something that Rodriguez has not been able to accomplish over the years that he has been in school. Rodriguez made it very apparent in his essay that he had grown away from his parents through much of his life. At one point in the essay he stated, “ I was not proud of my parents. I was embarrassed by their lack of education. It was not that I ever thought they were stupid, though stupid ....