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The American definition（定义） of success is largely one of gaining wealth. It is not surprising, 1 , that Americans have valued education for its money value. They believe that 2 more schooling people have, the more money they will earn when they leave school.
Survey findings showed 3 Americans who wished they 4 (lead) their lives differently regretted most of all that they did not get more education.
The regret is shared by those who have made 5 to the top and those who have not. Reporter Richard Reeves quotes a black worker in a Ford automobile factory:
“In the ninth grade, I was getting bad grades. My father came home one night with a pair of Ford work pants and he threw 6 in my face. ‘Put them on,’ he said, ‘ 7 you’re going to be wearing them the rest of your life if you don’t get an education.’”
Douglas Fraser, the president of the United Auto Workers Union, |
