داستان کوتاه متوسط به زبان انگلیسی با موضوع ارزش تحصیل

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“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” My father used to say this phrase to me all of the time. He was the oldest child in his family. By the time he was thirteen, he had quit school. He had to get a job in order to help pay the bills.

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My father was raised in the Deep South. Jobs were few and hard to find. Jobs were even more difficult to get if you were black. Without much education, he had to take manual labor jobs.

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My father grew up in a two-parent household where neither his mother nor his father had a good education. In fact, no one on either side of the family had ever gone to college. Because of this, my father would often stress how important it was to get a good education. He used the same theme that the United Negro College uses, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

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I didn’t pursue a better education, but that message has stuck with me all of my life. I wanted things to be different for my daughter. I made sure that when my daughter was born, she would get a good education. Pia was born on April 27, 1982. Since her birth, I have saved every nickel, penny, and dime for her college fund. One of us has made it! My father and I are so proud. Pia will be graduating this spring from Western University. We will be there to see her receive her diploma!