How Did Malcolm X Promote Education And Literacy

Although they come from different backgrounds, Mark Mathabane, Richard Rodriguez, and Malcolm X all promote education and literacy as the only real option to improve reading and writing skills. Mark Mathabane is a South African author,lecturer, and a former collegiate tennis and college professor. In his article he mentions that for him school was a waste of time and that he did not want to go, but then he changed his mind and promised his mother that he would go to school for the rest of the years that he had left. In the article he mentions that he did not know they were taking him to school, they made him take a shower and wear the school’s uniform, he thought he looked ridiculous, but when they told him they were taking him to school he totally freaked out and he was about to leave his house but he couldn’t
He mentions that from an early age he knew that his parents knew could read and write both Spanish and English, he observed his father making his way through tax forms. Other times he watched his mother read, but he states that for his parents wasn’t actually necessary, they had never read an entire book. He got a scholarship to a school, and the teachers thought he was mental because he read by himself. At the end of each school day, for nearly six months he would stay with the teacher and he asked him every day why he was so reluctant to read by himself, he tried to explain himself, he said that written words made him feel alone, he wanted to add more to his explanation but he couldn’t, the teacher studied his face as he talked, she seemed to be more than listening, she said that he had nothing to fear. He mentions that books opened doors for him, it could introduce him to new people and new places he never imagined