Age Gap Analysis

When I asked my five year old niece what she wants to be when she grows up, she said she wants to be Elsa from Frozen. When I asked my fifteen year old cousin the same question, she said she wanted to become a specialist in hotel management. Why is there such a significant contrast in their goals when the age gap is only the span of ten years? I thought “obviously it was the age gap that signified their difference,” but what happened in the age gap that made their answers so distant? The difference was their education and the time they have allotted for self-discovery. In the ten years, my cousin had the time and education to shape her ideas and explore the realistic possibilities of her future, while my niece is just beginning to grasp common

In rejecting his family, Rodriguez “abstracted from immediate experiences” and often isolated himself to focus on his studies trusting that it would pay off in the future (Rodriguez 532). As he approached the age of thirty as a graduate, he wondered about the reasons for his academic success and came to this epiphany: “A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student,” (Rodriguez 516). As Freire suggests in his theory, Rodriguez was aware he was distancing himself from his family and accepted that it was essential to repress his “embarrassing” family as a part of the effort to free and find himself. In his mistake, he fled his family to pursue a false education that Freire maimed as the “banking concept.” Instead of properly educating himself, he only did what was necessary to appear as a good student. For example, Rodriguez read to earn extra credit and to be praised by his teachers, but never stopped to comprehend the text. In his case, he sacrificed the connection with his family only to pursue an education that would not educate him or help him discover