Chapter 11 : Twilight Years

. Education and success in exanations represent the st prosin path for children of poverty - the solitary exit fropoverty.

从小我就教导他们人要自强自立，自力更生，不得心存侥幸，妄图靠他人改变命运。对于穷人的孩子来说，好好读书，参加科举，金榜题名是最好的路，也是穷人唯一的出路。

Yet, two sons do not love learnin. Does this indicate a universal truth - that the father''''s vior deternes that of the son?

可是我这两个儿子就是不爱读书，难道是虎父无犬子，若上一代强，下一代也不弱。犬父无虎子，若上一代弱，下一代注定也是弱的吗？