I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

孩子从书中学到的最重要的事情是他们很重要。

"To be a writer, one must have a certain arrogance, a belief that what one has to say is important enough for others to hear."