Martin Luther King's Analysis

Education is a crucial part of an individual’s life. Quality education promotes one’s social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development, acquiring the skills to be a productive member of society. Dr. King was an advocate for the true practice of education, as education “enables a man to be more efficient, to achieve the increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life” (Nieto 3). Dr. King’s college years impacted his social activism, because Dr. King did not only acquire the knowledge, but he critically analyzed the information he learned about Gandhi’s nonviolent method and applied it to create a better world to live in for all races, genders, and classes of people. Dr. King was a “man who made a commitment to actually apply what

However, after learning about the impact of college years on Dr. King, it opened my eyes to the impact of college education, as “the moment of epiphany in the mind of a college student can lead to a social revolution” (Griffin 29). It is important to think for one-self, critically analyze information and to not see everything for face-value. It is easy to be invaded by legions of half-truth, prejudice, and propaganda, especially going through education in a public system, which has controlled the narrative of Dr. King as a “dreamer.” Throughout the passage of time, interpretation of people, events, and movement change, as “remembrance is always a form of forgetting, twisted by ideology, political connections, embedded in heritage tours, public rituals, textbooks, and in aspects of mass culture” (Hal1 1245). By not learning about the Civil Rights Movement that has been tailored to make the leaders of significant movement appear boring and less believing in this class, it enabled me to think critically and understand that the Civil Rights Movement is an undefeated and unfinished revolution. In America today, an ongoing Civil Rights movement is being fought. This class enabled the scholars to practice the true function of education, which is to “sift and weight evidence, to discern the

By learning the different worldviews of the two cultures, how they make sense of the world, it helped me to understand better the reason for the difference in values and beliefs between the white population and black population. For example, the African worldview consists of the cosmology value that things are interconnected and interrelated and the axiology value of human-to-human relationship, community and interaction. Also, in the African worldview, the African people soul and spirit is what makes the person and guides one’s life, therefore also having the epistemology value that the source of knowledge is beyond the five sense and is more of our intuition (Carroll 25). On the other hand, the European worldview consists of the cosmology value that things are distinct and the axiology value of person to object relationships. (Carroll 23). In addition, for the European people, the ontology and epistemology values are apprehended by the five senses. The vast differences in values and belief were driven by the difference in their sense of