Savanna Meadows

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and a social activist. He played a big role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until 1968, when he was assassinated. Dr. King fought for equality for all. When he was in high school, he skipped ninth and twelfth grade. He enrolled into college without formally graduating high school. After he graduated college with his Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology in 1948, he enrolled in another college. He then graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity in 1951 from Crozer Theological Seminary. He then enrolled in Boston University in 1951, completing his studies in 1955. King married a woman named Coretta Scott. They had four children. Later on King became a pastor for the Dexter Avenue Baptist church when he was twenty-five years old. Even though, Dr. King almost didn’t become a minister. After college, he had doubts about Christianity and the Bible. He decided later on that the Bible had many profound truths which one cannot escape, therefore, he chose to become a minister. He was an inspiration to many. He fought for victims of injustice, the economically disadvantage through peaceful protest. In 1964, he helped legislate the Civil Rights Act. Later on the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  He is remembered and honored each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day since 1986. Dr. King once said, “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.” My personal interpretation of this quote is that there is a lot more to education than simply gaining knowledge. There’s more to it than sitting in a classroom, taking notes, and listening to a teacher. Your character speaks more about you than the grades you earn. Education is about teaching you how you can find your own answers to your own questions. You should strive to think in unique ways. It’s important to think outside the box. You need to know the where’s, the when’s, the how’s and the why’s. You don’t need to know just the “what.” Say you want to teach someone how to read, you don’t just want to teach them how to read the words. You want them to truly understand what they’re reading. For example, when I was very young, I would have to learn Bible versus. For a while, I didn’t know what they meant. Around this time, I was only about eight years old, so all I knew was the memorization. It wasn’t until I was older that I had an actual concept of what I was learning. I believe this means your character and thirst for better understandings have an influence your education. This quote really made me think, “What exactly is education?” 

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