How does the priority of education differ among cultures?

How does the priority of education differ among cultures?

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The role of education differs depending on the economic situation. For example, if you have a family that's involved with farm working, it's more important for a family that's involved with harvesting and agriculture to have their children come and help them out in the fields than it is for them to go to school. And often the teachers don't understand that the financial priorities come first. Survival comes first, education comes second. In addition, many Mexicans in particular, because it's so easy for them to go back and forth across the border, they place family obligations before education. And if somebody has died across the border, the whole family will go down there. Or a wedding, the whole family will go down. And even if the children are missing school, the importance of the family outweighs the value of the education. They know that they are missing it, but there's nothing that they can do about it.