" A..B...C..." - this could be anyone reciting the alphabet. Go up to any child atleast the age of five nad they will tell you theses letters in their correct order with clear percision. Iin the United Sates of America, education is a value tool, a tool that is given for free to billions of people, but this was not true all all the time. Education is not something that is available to evryone right now, or ever was in the record of history. Over the centuries, many have endure unaccountable sufferage to learn, to learn to read, to write, to speak. Language i sthe bases of all education, but many have been kept from gaining. From African Americans during the time of the civil war, to women in the last century, and finally to those women suffering
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Or atleast that is what evryone always assumes it was about. The civil war from the poin to f view from the slaves was that it was a fight for their chance at life, a chance to learn, a chance fro education. From the words of Fredrick Douglas himslef "-to wit, the white man's power to enslave the black man"(Source 1). Like many he too had realized that the ability to read and write was what allowed men to be of equals. The only difference between him and others during his time was that he was actaully able to attain his goals of learning and eventually became a writer, spokeman, and champaigner. In one of his books he states that " it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to reaad...'if you teach that negro to read, there would be no keeping him...'"(Source 1). This is a qoute that shows when Fredrick Douglas had understood that learning to read was dangerous and thus, …show more content…
"Although these developments have freed woemn for roles othe rthan motherhood...cultural pressure for women...still prevent many taleneed women from [attending schools] finishing colleges or pursueing careers." (Source 2) Amoung many places around the world, women are still treated as unequals, and prevented from recieving an education. In places such as the Middle East, terrorists have "banned TV, music, and girls' education"(Source 3), they view these things to be Western and not accept it. "I was afraid of going to school because th eTaliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools. Only 11 students attened the class out of 27." (Source 3) this was th e account of Malala Yousafzai, a young 14 year old girl living in Pakistan. She wrote adn published a diary of her trobles during her childhood. She has written about numerous situations where she had been scared that her life was coming to an end. From flinching everytime someone across the street "I will kill you" wondering if it was about her that they were refering, to getting " a bullet struck in her head". The girl has endure much suffering all for the chance at learning, and going to shcool. Those girls that live in these sorts of areas are prohibited from going to school, it has even come down to it where "the Taliban had blown up mor
Or atleast that is what evryone always assumes it was about. The civil war from the poin to f view from the slaves was that it was a fight for their chance at life, a chance to learn, a chance fro education. From the words of Fredrick Douglas himslef "-to wit, the white man's power to enslave the black man"(Source 1). Like many he too had realized that the ability to read and write was what allowed men to be of equals. The only difference between him and others during his time was that he was actaully able to attain his goals of learning and eventually became a writer, spokeman, and champaigner. In one of his books he states that " it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to reaad...'if you teach that negro to read, there would be no keeping him...'"(Source 1). This is a qoute that shows when Fredrick Douglas had understood that learning to read was dangerous and thus, …show more content…
"Although these developments have freed woemn for roles othe rthan motherhood...cultural pressure for women...still prevent many taleneed women from [attending schools] finishing colleges or pursueing careers." (Source 2) Amoung many places around the world, women are still treated as unequals, and prevented from recieving an education. In places such as the Middle East, terrorists have "banned TV, music, and girls' education"(Source 3), they view these things to be Western and not accept it. "I was afraid of going to school because th eTaliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools. Only 11 students attened the class out of 27." (Source 3) this was th e account of Malala Yousafzai, a young 14 year old girl living in Pakistan. She wrote adn published a diary of her trobles during her childhood. She has written about numerous situations where she had been scared that her life was coming to an end. From flinching everytime someone across the street "I will kill you" wondering if it was about her that they were refering, to getting " a bullet struck in her head". The girl has endure much suffering all for the chance at learning, and going to shcool. Those girls that live in these sorts of areas are prohibited from going to school, it has even come down to it where "the Taliban had blown up mor