Compare And Contrast Frederick Douglass And John Henry Newman

Douglass and Newman
Ancient Judea was the time period when the compulsory education was created. Compulsory education ideology is that every child from a region should be provided with public education. In 1857, a compulsory education law was passed in the state of Massachusetts that created a precedent to actually change the education system in the United States. Education has been viewed through different lenses, such as Frederick Douglass and John Henry Newman who approach education as a need for individuals, but they both have separate mindsets on its purpose. Frederick Douglass and John Henry Newman lived in different cultures that would explain their different mindsets on education. Frederick Douglass was former slave had numerous challenges to obtain an education. He was a young man was taught the alphabet by his former mistress. For Douglass, it became a challenge to keep learning because the mistress changed her attitude towards him by preventing him to learn. Douglass overcame this challenge by finding a way to keep learning with the help of children in the streets. Eventually, that lead Douglass taught himself to read and write to the point he had the ability to read “The Columbian Orator”. The book made Douglass face the sad reality of not being able to fulfill …show more content…
Such as Douglass view that it can grant the freedom for person by knowing the ways on how the society intention of hiding away the free of thought from restricting slaves being educated. Compared to Newman that knowledge is liberty to break the traditional ways for restricting the train of thought of an individual. Both philosophers will agree that education is a human need that can grant them skill that can break the limitations that oppresses the people. With learning the point of views it has brought a better understanding in how education has to change over time to make it better and it would not