Mlk's Speech Summary

Martin Luther King Jr. thinks that the main function for education is to teach someone to think more critically. MLK also addresses that the purpose of education is to help a man become more productive in life to make it easy to reach their goals. He also states that people are disposed to propaganda in their education and that’s what is changing their mental thoughts. People think that education is used to make someone who is educated feel more superior than the uneducated person. MLK thinks education should be used to conquer your goals in life. He stated in his speech that “education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals in life”. What he means by this is that all you need to …show more content…
MLK also believes that some people are likely to have their lives or their mental thoughts become invaded by what media is exposing to them or by propaganda. This means that the person who is the most educated is the one that is well informed in education and is the independent one. While the person who isn’t educated is the one who is being brainwashed by the media and by propaganda surrounding them. A menace in the society isn’t always a person who is uneducated. So he thinks that the menace in the society can be the one with morals. As he said “ the most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals”. So what he is saying by this is that the menace can be the one who has the most education in the society and it can be a strong tool to the education in the society. MLK also thinks that a person who is well educated shouldn’t feel more superior than a person who isn’t well educated. He says this so the uneducated person won’t feel like they're beneath the society. He thought about this when he said “ Mr. Talmadge could think critically and intensively; yet he contends that i am an inferior