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Running head: LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK.LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACKName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK1This essay explains the differences between the lives of my mother and me. There is ahuge generation gap between us as well as there are differences in opportunities, education,cultural and healthcare (Palasri, Huter & Wenzel, 2013). This essay was done with thepermission of my mother. I was very enthusiastic about knowing more about my mother.Growing up with my mother was a nice experience, but she never expressed much about thedifficulties she have faced. She has great respect for the education, and according to her, it isvery important to be educated. She states that knowledge can make a person wise and happy.Being educated can give a person the strength to look forward in life and do what is needed to bedone. It can make a person self-dependent. Being an unfortunate student, my mother has seenmany incidents that made her strong and determined from the inside to achieve her education.The following paragraphs will explain how my mother influenced my value and beliefs, what shemay have faced during her educational life and the challenges she may have encountered whenshe was of my age.My mother was the first person whom I always wanted to be my idol since my childhood.With such a personality and value, my mother is the sweetest person that I know. She was bornin 1958. She was born into a big family, and there were many family members unlike mine. Theplace where my mother was born was rural and with lack of opportunities and technologies(Grimm, Waibel & Klasen, 2016). At that time, there were not many opportunities for theeducation and the schools were very far away. At that time, there were restrictions on the girl’sschooling, there were many reasons behind that, security issues for the girls and the schoolingdistances (Baker & Phongpaichit, 2014). There were not many numbers of schools wereavailable nearby. Encouragement and dedications were the main factors that made the students todo their studies. However, my grandfather encouraged my mother to study as much as she wants.
LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK2My grandfather being a former teacher knew the importance of the study (Vorapanya & Dunlap,2014). He knew that the education could help his daughter to become a great personality.Keeping in mind the educational obstacles of that time, he decided to support endlessly towardsthe study of my mother and her sisters. At that period, the women used to be married at a veryearly age. It was a belief that that the women were better off doing the house works and theyshould not be educated that much or should not be encouraged to be educated. It was assured atthat phase that the education was very costly that is why it should be invested on the sons as theyare going will invest in household where the daughters will leave the house after marriage andmanage the households of her husbands. Educating a girl was a waste of money for many poorpeople. However, with the continuous encouragement from my grandfather my mother and myaunt and older sister continued their studies (Yousapronpaiboon, 2014). My mom always saidthat education is very important to grow personal values and beliefs. Education can make aperson wise and polite. My mother told me at that time due to the high cost of the school theparents were not able to provide all of their children with an education at the same time. Inaddition to these problems, there was another problem that is no control over the number ofchildren in every family (Kiss et al., 2015). In that time, there were no use birth controls, peopledid not know much about the birth control techniques and did not concern about this matter. Thisresulted in an increasing amount of the children in every family each year. In order to provideeducation to all the children, some of the children had to make a sacrifice of their study so thattheir siblings can go to schools. Many of my aunts and uncles also had to quit schools to providemy mother with proper education (Tilak, 2015).My mother used to study in the rural area where the schools were lacking propertechnologies and methods of studying. Besides, there was also a lack of appropriate subject-
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