The part wich struck me the most was in chapter 8 when the professor says "Literature. If you want to know about people, study English literature, not psychology." I think this is a true statement. Psychology helps to explain why the mind works the way it does but it does not answer how people act. A writer always reflects part of themselves and their beliefs in their work. Literature can be very influencing and I think the boy in the story realizes this when in the final chapter he realizes he has let all of the learning and knowledge cloud the fact his great-grandmother cannot read.
It is interesting that to realize this he has to go all the way back to the village of his birth, far away from the influences and life of the universities. To gain knowledge he went far from home and spent lots of money on tuition but it is in a remote village where he learns that even knowledge can make a person less intellectual.
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