Programme of study (Suffer due to Education?)

Have you ever stopped for a moment and analyzed whether we gain or we suffer due to the changes we experience in our teaching-learning process. To me, not only do we gain a lot, but also it is a rewarding process. Helping others in their process of growing and growing ourselves due to the tools that education gives us is one of the most wonderful experiences as human beings.

Now, what about Rita? According to the view of different characters throughout the play we can say that she has gained a lot and also suffered a lot. For instance, no matter whether e agree or not with the "old" Rita, she had a life and a social background that surrounded her; while this new Rita is on her own, she had left her husband and she is now trying to meet new people. However, at the very beginning of the play she states that she wants to know everything and now that she has been through several things she has learnt a lot of those things. Would she be the same without suffering for Trish almost killing herself or "proper" students mocking at her?

Education as a process has its ups and downs, as everything in life we need from those "downs" to learn even more. I guess that Rita discovers that at the end of the play, and that's why she comes back to THANK HER TECAHER after all.