Education plays a vital role in our society. Without it, the success and development of many countries would be nonexistent. Due to education, people can understand the difference between right and wrong, and they are able to create equal standards of many things, such as living, throughout the nation. This theory, however, is why Frederick Douglass was unable to openly and easily obtain the education that should should have been available from the very start. The racist society that he was forced to live in forbade him from earning an education whilst the same society enforced the education of Benjamin Franklin. In Douglass’ Narrative of the Life, he quickly developed a life mantra after his Master forbade him from learning to read and write.
