What does Rodriguez mean when he says, “He [ a scholarship boy ] cannot afford to admire his parents.”  Elaborate on your response.
 When Richard Rodriguez says that he cannot admire his parents he says that because they never did anything to get him at the position he is.  They did not help him in any way to get where he is in his education.  He cannot admire his parents because he is on such a higher level of education compared to his parents that he cannot even have a conversation because of the complicated subjects and ideas that he would have.
 Rodriguez felt that his teachers understood him more then his parents, so he has more respect for his teachers then he does for his parents.  One reason is because his teachers are more closely related to his level of education.
 This article has quite a different approach on education compared to Freire.  In this article Rodriguez says that his teachers could make him an educated man.  While Freire says that the student makes himself an educated man because his teacher is on the same level that the student is.  While Rodriguez became older education became everything to him, and I think that is one reason that he couldn’t admire his parents.  Since education became everything for him and his parents weren’t educated how could he admire them?  On the subject of Freire, Rodriguez believes that the scholarship boy is not a thinker he is exactly what Freire calls the students, depositories.  While Freire has a good point of view I think that Rodriguez also has a good point of view on education.