Malcolm X And Ta-Hehisi's View Of Education Essay

Education is one of the things every individual should have in the modern world. People have different opinions when it comes to education. No one can truly say that education isn’t useful in some sort of way. Education is very important to both Malcolm X and Ta-Nehisi, Malcolm’s view of education being a starting point for the black man’s freedom and Ta-Nehisi’s view of public education being an imprisonment on the black man’s freedom and intelligence s what puts these two individuals on different spectrums. Ta-Hehisi would agree with Malcolm X on his argument that the educated black man uses his high education to show off or seem superior to the average black man because Ta-Nehisi says in his book that schools weren’t teaching students to think outside the box. Malcolm X says while he was traveling across the country to different colleges that, “to my way of thinking, one of those “educated” Negroes who never had understood the true intent, or purpose, or application of education (X, page 272)”. There is obviously a serious problem that both Ta-Nehisi and Malcolm X make about this issue. A majority of Black men and women who have an education use it to separate himself from their own people and to create an illusion in …show more content…
Teachers and parents have encouraged children for decades that reading is very good for learning grammar, analyzing, etc. Public education, still to this day, doesn’t emphasize how important books, especially non-fiction give students multiple outlooks on life or multiple viewpoints to where the youth can have their own opinions instead of a fixed opinion. Malcolm X and Ta-Nehisi both believe that books make the black man free, but honestly, that can be argued about any student or kid in society today. All in all, books are important, to free the mind and the youth