“His work seemed to him thin, commonplace, feeble. At times he felt his own weakness so fatally that he could not go on; when he had nothing to say, he could not say it, and he found that he had very little to say at best” (Adams 39). Having been born into the upper class, Henry Adams graduated from high school and then for him, “the next regular step was Harvard” (Adams 32). Through Adam’s essay, “The Education of Henry Adams”, it is clear that the education he received at Harvard was plagued by his negative mindset that was triggered by his social status and the history of his surname. Adams failure to find his passion for education can be attributed to his lack of motivation, his nonexistent personal achievement, and his feelings of social superiority.
Adams argues that, “the school created a type but not a will” (Adams 32). What Adams failed to realize during his years of education was that the student must find his own will. Whether ones will is to be the......
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