Professor Pryor
9/10/14
Learning to Read: pg. (189)
1) What motivated Malcom X to educate himself is that while he was spending 7 years in prison he educated himself and became a discipline of Elijah Muhammad, founder of the nation of Islam. Many people think that he went to school far beyond the eighth grade. But this impression is due entirely to his prison studies. He argues that Bimbi was the first person that made him feel envy of his stock knowledge. He also explain that from the every book he would pick up had few sentences which didn’t contain anywhere from one to really all of the words that might as well have been in chines. He would skip those words, but he ended up with little idea of what the book is …show more content…
After practicing and taking words by words from dictionary he soon learn millions of words.
3) In my opinion if public schools was to empower the students in the way that Malcom X’s self-education himself is the best way to help the students to know much more words from every words that they look up in dictionary and they would know new words every …show more content…
In our time of economics retrenchment, defenders of the faith are sounding beleaguered. Everyone who is honest about academe knows that collage and universities tend to be wasteful and plagued by expensive redundancies. The trouble is that many reforms, and most efficiencies, whether achieved through rational planning or imposed by the ineluctable process of technology change, are at odds with practices that are essential if liberal education is to survive and thrive.one of the distinctive features of the American collage has always been the idea that student have something to learn not only from their teachers but also from each other. A class should be small enough to permit every student to participate in the give-and take- of discussion under the guidance of an informed, skilled, and engage teacher.an even more promising strategy for cost containment is to install one or another technological “delivery system” in place of the cumbersome old system of teachers mentoring students. The standardize-testing regime along with the mania for institutional rankings is spread throughout the world and making inroads in the historically decentralized education system of the United States. With the arises the specter that our collage will be subject to some version of what, In the