The True Purpose of Education?
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois in his essay Of Our Spiritual Striving explains the importance of education and what should be changed to make it a better experience for everyone. When Du Bois realized, what education was and what he had missed he decided to perfect education so that it would change from the incomplete, oversimplified version to its true potential and its complexity. Whether some of his ideas were implemented by choice or force, they changed education for everyone in the United States. Is education worth seeking out or is it just for a select few?
Education is important to Du Bois because it rids people of ignorance and a hope of unity. Du Bois says, "It was the idea ‘of book learning’; the curiosity, born of compulsory ignorance, to know and test the power of the cabalistic letters of the white man, the …show more content…
Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud—and behold the suicide of a race! Nevertheless, out of the evil came something of good—the more careful adjustment of education to real life, the clearer perception of the Negroes’ social responsibilities, and the sobering realization of the meaning of progress.” (296).
Without education, a race could be wiped out and never given the chance to show their potential. The limit of life is small without education, as it doesn’t give much opportunity to grow as a person or to do things that you may have enjoyed if you know about them. Who knows if someone may have made a great scientist, artist, poet, architect, or other prominent position, but was not able to get an education to get to that point. Without education, a group or race can be killed off if nothing is done to educate them, so they can have a say in their
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois in his essay Of Our Spiritual Striving explains the importance of education and what should be changed to make it a better experience for everyone. When Du Bois realized, what education was and what he had missed he decided to perfect education so that it would change from the incomplete, oversimplified version to its true potential and its complexity. Whether some of his ideas were implemented by choice or force, they changed education for everyone in the United States. Is education worth seeking out or is it just for a select few?
Education is important to Du Bois because it rids people of ignorance and a hope of unity. Du Bois says, "It was the idea ‘of book learning’; the curiosity, born of compulsory ignorance, to know and test the power of the cabalistic letters of the white man, the …show more content…
Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud—and behold the suicide of a race! Nevertheless, out of the evil came something of good—the more careful adjustment of education to real life, the clearer perception of the Negroes’ social responsibilities, and the sobering realization of the meaning of progress.” (296).
Without education, a race could be wiped out and never given the chance to show their potential. The limit of life is small without education, as it doesn’t give much opportunity to grow as a person or to do things that you may have enjoyed if you know about them. Who knows if someone may have made a great scientist, artist, poet, architect, or other prominent position, but was not able to get an education to get to that point. Without education, a group or race can be killed off if nothing is done to educate them, so they can have a say in their