Frederick Douglass Views On The Importance Of Education

African-American slaves were forbidden to obtain the knowledge of being able to read or write, stemming from the fear of white masters that educated slaves will overpower them. Douglass managed to learn to read by bribing poor and hungry white boys into teaching him in exchange for bits of bread. Douglass illustrates his thirst for literacy through “[The] bread [he] used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give [him] that more valuable bread of knowledge” (pg 23). This reveals how much Douglass valued education and took advantage of all the knowledge he had access to. Today’s youth, especially the ones belonging to a minority

There is a purpose each person is created for. People should maintain the difference and respect the way they were made. Some people were meant to be followers, others, controllers. Slavery existed from day one, but with the many concepts that occurred, just like freedom and independence, they felt a need to change. Slavery was considered as something normal, people didn’t feel that it is worth thinking about until they were awakened that they have rights and should demand them.

Also the white children has the privilege of reading and writing and Fredrick did not because he was a slave. Fredrick’s passion for learning and obtaining more knowledge was very strong which further grew his masters to forbid him from getting an education. This one example out of the many examples of inhumanity of slavery had a great effect on Fredrick and his escape to freedom. The more opportunities he had to read and write, the more he wanted to escape to freedom to get an education like the white children and adults had the privilege to. When he more commonly used his ability to read and write, Fredrick became a deep thinker and came up with a realization about slave holders on page 39, “I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes and in a strange land reduced us to slavery.

Slave owners in the South may teach this to their children so that their slaves do not try to escape and make arguments like this. The slave owners wouldn’t want to lose a slave or two slaves or more, just because they were good at arguing. In the beginning, Douglass expressed his need for reading, “it was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things... I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty-to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man.” He knows that, because the white man is educated and knows how to read, the white man is much more well off than Douglass because of his intelligence and understanding. The white man could solve a reading,

First, they blamed the south for causing the Civil War that ended prior. Secondly, they wanted to help the slaves because they felt they needed protection. His main concern was to make an economic opportunity for the slaves. He wanted them to make a living on their own and not depend of the “whites” as they have been used to. Then there was Charles Sumner, thinking on the same lines as Stevens.

I think that the man was doing the right thing by going out and following his owns ways. The teacher could have been wrong and by listening to the teacher he has conformed to society and what they think instead of thinking about his own ideas and how he really feels about the topic. This would lead them all into the wrong path. If you keep doing the wrong thing you can never reach the peak in knowledge ,which is supposed to help a person strive to be unique and break out from that bubble of conformity. Why should people always the the same thing instead of keeping an open mind and expressing how they feel not how everyone feels and that topic?

Though he achieved great things they weren’t just given to him he had to work to be the person that he became. Fredrick started out as a slave, his mistress taught him how to read and write until his master ceased the lessons, and he continued to learn to read

He understood the position that those he was looking after are in but he also finds experiencing something that was unknown to him. As an overseer Equiano discovers the horrible treatment the slaves are faced with and this disgusts him. As years had gone by Equiano continued to rely on his newfound faith in God to guide him through the difficult situations he had been facing. His religious faith had played an important role on his views of slavery and why he believed it was wrong. Christianity allowed Equiano to discover a sense of equality that every human was supposed to have, and that each person deserved to be treated with dignity.

Douglass plans on obeying his masters in the beginning so that he won't have any problems with his masters. He then shows that he will do anything that he can just for the sake to know how to read and write. Lastly, he taught slaves the importance of learning how to read and write but doing this good deed he is risking slaves on getting in trouble because they are leaving the plantations and doing something that they aren't supposed to do. Frederick Douglass never got the feeling of equality when he was in the South, but once he set foot in the North, he got that feeling of equality. Gandhi would have never welcome the American society of this time because it’s against his moral

It is dire necessity! We need liberal arts so that students don’t just get a degree but also become capable of securing a job on the basis of what they have learnt. But in a deeper sense we need a liberal arts education, also to create a better, free-thinking and sensitive society – something that will help eradicate major societal evils like rape, gender and caste-based discrimination, violence, dowry system etc. Most of these exist due to narrow-mindedness and intolerance towards anything new or different. A liberal arts education creates a generation that is sensitive, open to ideas and questions injustice when they see