Let's Make A Slave Analysis

1. (A) William Lynch’s 1712 “Let’s Make a Slave” was a guide laying out the methods of how to make slave. He starts off with the ingredients needed for the finishing product: a black N man, a pregnant N woman, and her baby N boy. Lynch compares the breaking of these African Americans to that of breaking in a horse. He knows that as a unit these individuals are strong in their natural state. As a natural instinct, generally living humans as well as animals take care of their family. With this knowledge, Lynch knows that you need to breakdown this institution, and disable the independent nature of the Africans that were used to be enslaved. Instead of coupling the African man and his family he breaks this union by focusing on the woman and the offspring. He explains how the mother can break the offspring at an early age, and then when he is old enough to work she will give him to the master. By reversing the natural roles of the woman being dependent …show more content…
Naim Akbar’s Miseducation to Education sheds light on the difference between being educated and being trained. According to Dr. Akbar an educator is one whose duty is not only to impart knowledge to others, but also he has the task of developing the knowledge, skill and the mind of the student, and to bring out the latent qualities which the student already possesses. Dr. Akbar stands on the position that many teachers are not educators they are trainers. Students are trained to think in a pattern of thinking with the mind of the status quo. When we are educated teachers bring out of us a greater expression of that which is already in us. Moving in accord with our pre-determined nature is the nature of education. When we manifest what somebody else wants us to be, we are actually trained. As a result, we end up in a society full of trained degreed people, and very few educated people. There are people that can rattle off information and or statistics, yet are unable to decipher or even convey what it