Martin Luther King Jr's Influence On Education

In September 1948 King began his studies at Crozer, where, unlike at Morehouse, he excelled as a student. Crozer was the first integrated school King attended; he soon became the school's first African American student body president and later graduated at the top of his class. It was here that he awakened intellectually, reading voraciously, particularly in theology and secular philosophy; and it was here that he was exposed to currents of thought that guided his thinking for the rest of his life.

King read Plato, Aristotle, Luther, Locke, Kant, and Rousseau. Of especial influence were Hegel, from whom he took an understanding of the complexity of truth and history; Marx, who greatly affected his view of capitalism; Walter Rauschenbusch,