Tuesdays With Morrie Chapter 12 Quotes
Tuesdays With Morrie Chapter 12 Quotes
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Quote 4
Still, despite their circumstances, Morrie was taught to love and to care. And to learn. Eva would accept nothing less than excellence in school, because she saw education as the only antidote to their poverty. (12.25)
Way to put education on a pedestal. Morrie was inspired by his stepmother, who told him that learning is the ultimate power trip; in his youth, education was the "antidote" to being poor. Obviously it helped Morrie move out of the slums of the Depression-era Bronx.