Writing About Writing: The Value Of Education

Knowledge is clearly defined as acts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education. A person who has received a quality education at an institution of higher learning will have a sizable advantage over someone who chose to limit their education to a high school level. In Writing About Writing we are given a clear example of two children who received an education and used that knowledge to escape all worldly issues and display their thoughts and intelligence through writing. Troy an African American seventeen-year old boy chooses to express his creativity through rap music and Keisha a fifteen-year old African American girl who communicates her creativity through poetry, rap music and plays. Knowledge Opens your mind up for exploration, enhances communication among peers and other …show more content…
While discussing this topic with a few of my peers they voiced their opinion that the "power" can have very different meanings to people. My sorority sister and close friend Hope Harris said, “I think knowledge is powerful because it gives people the confidence to speak out about what they believe in and allows them to apply what they have learned and use it to advance in the real world.” This just proves that knowledge is something that people value and view it as something they want to obtain. They also few it an an important factor in achieving success. When I asked Hope who were her inspirations and who encouraged her to excel in school she didn’t hesitate to say her parents. Hope saying that made me start to think that where you come from has a huge factor in to the importance that knowledge has in our lives. Then I looked back in to what Mahiri and Sablo about Keisha and Troy and it makes you see that although they didn’t have people encouraging them to pursue an education yet they still yearned for knowledge and through that have gained recognition for their hard