Shame is a bad thing, you know. It keeps you down. You want to know why I quit school? Because I didn't have nice clothes. No clothes, but I had brains. —"A Smart Cookie," Sandra Cisneros Which inference can you make about the mother based on why she quit school? She preferred shopping to learning. She did not think that she needed to go to school. She was smarter than the other students when she was young. She valued what people thought more than her education.
