Saturday, January 12, 2008

You Have Not Been Educated On Anything, Just Informed On a Few Things -- Just Enough to Continue to Be A Slave and You Don't Even Know It


In the book the Miseducation of the Negro, Dr. Carter G. Woodson makes it cystal clear that the Negro has made a critical mistake in thinking that he has been educated as to live effectively in a his current domicile. Today we have more so called educated professional than we've ever had, though our social, political, economic and even our health problems are greater than they've ever been.

The truth of this trend of thought is that the Negro continues to be informed, while he thinks he is being educated. What's the difference? Let me address this through an example. Many of us have been informed on how a vehicle starts and runs. Few of us have been educated on the same thing. A typical education might sound like something like this, when the ignition in the car is turned, it closes an electrical circuit that causes the starter to send fire to the motor, which fires up the pistons, etc.

Being educated on this, enables the educated to effectively troubleshoot when there is a problem and/or to apply the principles of the operation to a number of different circumstances. A mere informing of the same thing is much more general, and just covers surface type information. It's a terrible thing when you've been informed, but you think you've been educated. Just look at our situations today.

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