Lu and Rose

I enjoyed these essays, but the Lu one kind of lost me a little bit in the middle and im not sure if I'm exactly correct on what I'm talking about, but here it goes.

Lu and Rose are both college professors and in both their essays they strongly depict the motivation of education. They are both similar in that way, but I think they differ a great deal on their educational dilema's. In Roses' essay he discusses helping others who are "working-class children, poorly educated Vietnam vets, underprepared college students, and adults in basic literary programs" (Rose, 124). He had a passion to help people who dreamed to one day be correctly educated and be able to obtain a job with a decent wage, and to be in control of their economic life. In Lu's essay she discusses her own education. An education that was dominated by memories of confusion and frustration. Her education was torn between two worlds, and two languages; home and school. A world dominated by the ideology of the Western humanisitic tradition and a world of a society dominated by Mao Tse-ung's Marxism.
Rose longed to help understand why his students take tests certain ways, why they don't understand the big picture, because it was a time when many were "intellectually deficient." He wanted to help those who suffered because of lack of education. He wanted to help them socially, by educating them so they can eventually have more open-minded oppurtunties that can improve their health and the welfare of their families. Lu longed to be able to maintain the education of the english langauge that she had worked so hard to learn, as well as maintain her chinese language. She was torn between the two, and suffered through controversy because of the Chinese Revolution. She was torn between her family and the way her family educated her and between her school and society and how they wanted to educate her.

Sorry, it is long!