Monday, 18 August 2008
I've just finished reading the firs scene of this book and it makes for interesting reading. One of the main characters is Susan, who has decided to change her name to Rita. She is a twenty-six-year-old middle class woman that works as a hairdresser. She has decided to take a literature course at the Open University. She sais she wants to discover herself before starting a family and that she wants a better way of living her life, but her husband cannot and does not want to understand this. She wants to study because she wants to know a bit more about everything in order to distinguish herself from the people that surround her. She has a lively and enquiring mind and she wants to be academic, expand her knowledge of the world and see things from the point of view of a more educated person. I think that she wants to know if she can get further than being a hairdresser or a housekeeper for the rest of her life, and she is determined to do it!
Education should always be encouraged, no matter how old you are you can always learn something. Fortunately, Rita is an adult and has the will to learn more, but sometimes children need to be helped to understand that it is necessary to receive at least primary and secondary education. It is true that many times people who have studied and became professionals are not well-paid and this may be one discouraging factor as children may think that it is not worth studying so many years, but it is also true that this should not keep us from continuing trying to reach what we want to be.
