Educational Commodity

The article “En Los dios Idiomas” written by Marcia Farr expresses main of the dynamic of education in the Mexican family living in the U.S. The portions of the study that I found particularly interesting were the ways in which they learn literacy and that they view literacy as another group asset.
The educational backgrounds of the family group varies dependent on the ages of the members. If they are older and came to the US from Mexico many of them haven’t been educated above grade school. However the children who were born and or raised in the US are usually educated at least to high school and sometimes into a graduate degree. At home the majority of the education emphasis is directed toward religious studies on Sundays were the family gathers together to read the bible and discuss it, the more educated members reading the text. In this way the more educated are used to accomplish educated goals for the family unit. Other ways are if an important document comes in the mail that needs to be read or if one of the family members need to complete job applications. How ever I believe the most interesting way that the Mexican family uses education as a commodity is that they used the educated family members to teach the others to read and write.
By utilizing the educated members in the family in this manner the family becomes more educated and there by increasing their marketability. This is the same way that governments become stronger technologically advanced. The government increases education levels of the populace and thereby increases global strength.