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This book gives me the strongest feeling,and once again deepened my belief that I have always believed in: the early experiences of life - especially family education - have a crucial decisive role in the life trajectory. In fact, after closing the book, I looked at the question with interest: if the two five-year-old Wes Moore in front of me, let me predict which one will grow up later, I can guess Right? On the surface, they are quite similar in their situation: their families are ordinary, supported by mothers and matrilineal relatives, and fathers will not appear in their lives, living in ethnic communities with concentrated ethnic groups, and Baltic and New York. Bronx), the corner is more than idle or to drug trafficking for young men. …show more content…
... who can be better family education, is it quite obvious? In fact, the author was born by his mother at all costs into the best near the school, while the other Wes in the city of Baltimore city outside the school was removed. As early as the experience of the two Wes adult trajectory, although there is a post-Zhuge Liang suspected, but it seems not

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