Read the passage from My Antonia by Willa Cather?Those girls had grown up in the first bitter-hard times, and had got little schooling themselves. But the younger brothers and sisters, for whom they made such sacrifices and who have had "advantages,” never seem to me, when I meet them now, half as interesting or as well educated. The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new.
Answer
A
It is better for girls to be farmers than teachers.
B
Experience can be a more effective teacher than formal education.
C
It isn’t a good idea to make sacrifices for your family.
D
People who have advantages aren’t very interesting.
Explanation
The passage contrasts the older girls’ limited schooling with what they learned through hardship, work, and observing life. Although their younger siblings had more formal “advantages,” the narrator finds them less interesting and not as well educated. This supports the idea that experience can teach as effectively as, or more effectively than, formal education.
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