Summary Of Martin Luther King The Purpose Of Education

Martin Luther King Jr. says the purpose of education is to learn, to take advantage, to teach each other to think creativity, that education should be for everyone no matter how they look or where they come from. I strongly agree with Martin Luther King Jr. because the higher class people back then were really racist to the lower class people. They didn’t allow the blacks to be able to have an education all because of their race. The white race had the opportunity to go to school that was provided for them by hand and didn’t take the education seriously. So Martin Luther King Jr. insisted that if any opportunity handed to the minorities, that they should take advantage of that opportunity because he knew that they would have taken it more seriously.
What I think was stopping the minorities from getting an education was culture and the law. There was numerous laws of what the blacks couldn't do and getting an education was one of them. Some of the “educated people” were not as smart as one of the blacks, but just because they were white they got an education. Also the culture of the society didn't want the whites and blacks to be together. The law didn't want the
said in his paper “The Purpose of Education” that “We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-- that is the goal of true education.” Which basically is saying that just because you're intelligent doesn't mean you have an education but having intelligence and having mental and moral qualities is what having a true education is. The whites had an education but didn’t value it as much as the blacks did. The blacks wanted to have an education so badly but the law didn’t allow for them to do so. Some of the high class white men could think that some of the lower class black men have brilliant minds and think very intensively and critically, but just because they think they are inferior people they believe they are not worthy enough of having an