In this way, I find similarities between my story and Sojourner Truth's. Wolff writes that Sojourner Truth “learned, by following her mother, the basics of how to keep house (Wolff, 2009, p. 72). For Sojourner, this was the beginning of her education. The methods through which he learned from his mother, especially observation, shaped his learning style for the rest of his life. Just as her mother taught Sojourner household chores, I was taught the same skills by my older brothers. I learned by watching and training just like she did. In the same way that housework became the basis of her education, it became the basis of mine. I learned to look carefully. Even though these tasks were not part of my formal education, they taught me something extremely valuable: how to do it