Martin Luther King Jr.: The Purpose Of Education

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An intelligent man does not have to be equivalent to a respectable man. Those who are educated through academics at school are not given a foundation of good moral aspects. Martin Luther King Jr. said that this should be purpose of education and I fully agree. Education should purposefully be to build up an intelligent yet also logical and morally correct person. Martin Luther King Jr. had said part of the purpose of education is to discern the true from false. I believe that intelligence with no morals is dangerous for society which is exactly what he is informing. Danger has always been an issue therefore why are we, as a whole, not doing our true best to prevent it all? School shootings don’t happen because the student was not educated. …show more content…

Being force fed all the elements in the periodic table, crammed into a student's head doesn’t make them smart. Everyone needs to emphasize on this. Let me gladly repeat: MEMORIZING ALL OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE PERIODIC TABLE DOES NOT MAKE YOU SMART. Thinking critically with efficiency (as Martin Luther King said) is what makes someone intelligent. Where you’re from and where you grew up can affect your morals which lean against you intelligence. My friend is an example of that. Let’s refer to him as Kyle. Before Kyle truly let himself realize the difference between right from wrong stealing seemed okay with him. His mother did it so does that mean so can he? He wasn’t thinking critically. He didn’t see a huge enough problem with it but it wasn’t because to him the punishment outweighed the act of crime. No, Kyle hadn’t even thought that far. If the school Kyle went to enforced him to think critically, maybe his stealing could have been avoided. Utility and culture is something Martin Luther King Jr. mentioned for education and I agree. As much I, personally, know about academic things from my ongoing years of attending school, it does not even come close to my knowledge about life. I’m fifteen? In retrospect how much can I really know about life? Well my answer to that is more than the academic knowledge I learned at school. I have never learned about my culture at any of my schools. Again random subjects like

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