The Growth of a “Scholarship Boy” Richard Rodriguez discusses his education and study habits from early education up through graduate school. Throughout his essay Rodriguez describes how he is changing and growing as a person. In his early education he describes himself as a “scholarship boy”. Now that he is done with his education I feel that he has grown up some, but he is still in the process of becoming a “scholarship man.” It wasn’t until late in his educational career, when he was writing his dissertation, that he found the description of the “scholarship boy.” He noticed the term when he was skimming through the book The Uses of Literacy, by Richard Hoggart. After rea