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Ways of Explaining Education


             from a child intelligence and character and eventual greatness.
             Sally Morgan expresses at one point in her reading "My Place" that she only had one .
             goal during her high schooling which was to leave school. Sally's mother had hopes .
             that her daughter would achieve brilliance and believed she had "too much talent to .
             waste" (page 88) and therefore would not allow this leaving to occur. Her mother .
             wished for her daughter and her siblings "to have a good education and to "get on in .
             the world"" (page 88) with desired professions such as a doctor. Sally found her only .
             interests lie in art, and wanted to make a difference through painting and drawing. .
             According to her mother this was not an acceptable occupation to strive for and Sally .
             was strongly advised against becoming an artist, with reason that "there's no future in .
             it"(page 96). Sally's school art teacher also ridiculed her artwork in front of the class, .
             and the combination of this and her family's advice drove her to give up drawing and .
             proceed to burn all her paintings. This saddened Sally very much as she believed that .
             "drawing was her only talent" (page 97). .
             Sally Morgan is now currently a well-known artist famous for her aboriginal artwork, .
             proving that aspirations and dreams are never to be out of reach or unrealistic, if you .
             have the intelligence to believe in it, and the character to strive for it. .
             The character through which Vera Brittain expressed in her biography entitled .
             "Testament of Youth" was one that held a feminist attitude toward life. In a .
             world were greatness was only achieved through aspiring to be "the first one engaged" .
             Brittain too, like Morgan wanted to achieve something that was ridiculed by her .
             peers. Brittain's attendance to her schooling institution of Saint Monicas she believed .
             did not equip her with the knowledge she desired to continue to tertiary study, as it .
             was "regarded by many of the parents who patrionised it as a means of equipping girls .


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