Mark Mathabane, Richard Rodriguez, And Malcolm X

In all three stories every author we’ve discussed have similar thinking of education. Mark Mathabane, Richard Rodriguez, and Malcolm X all thought education was a waste of time and had no point of learning. In the end, education helped them all to succeed in life. Education has always been very important and for some people it hasn’t been reachable. It is never too late to get an education.
In the story of Mark Mathabane he talks about his struggles of not wanting to go to school to get an education and at the end realizing how important it was for his mother for him to get an education. His father disagreed with the idea of him going to school and inbedded that idea in Mark Mathabane’s head. Mark did not understand the importance of an education. He thought life was about living in the streets and being street smart. Mark Mathabane said in his story “They, like myself, had grown up in an environment where the value of an education was never emphasized, where the first thing a child learned was not how to read and write and spell, but how to …show more content…
It shouldn’t be that half of the world get better education and the other half not very well education. Another opinion is that all these authors have helped to shape education throughout the years. The saying that caught my eye the most was “Open the doors of your mind with books.” This quote relates to me because my family in my house would always say that books can help you in your education. The reason why they would tell me that was because when I was in middle school they would always say that by reading books can get you a good career because if we wouldn’t read any books we would not be able to get a job or graduate school. Without reading we wouldn’t be able to know what higher words would mean. Another reason why that quote caught my eye was because door and books are the same because they both open and you through them to your