The Purpose of Education by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Reading Response Instructions Reading Response Step 1 Read and Annotate the following Article The

The Purpose of Education by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Reading Response Instructions

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by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
Morehouse College Student Paper, The Maroon Tiger, in 1947
As I engage in the so-called “bull sessions” around and about the school, I too often find that
most college men have a misconception of the purpose of education. Most of the “brethren”
think that education should equip them with the proper instruments of exploitation so that
they can forever trample over the masses. Still others think that education should furnish
them with noble ends rather than means to an end.
It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in
society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become
more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking. To think incisively and
to think for one’s self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by
legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda. At this point, I often wonder whether or not
education is fulfilling its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not
think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in
many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of
propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one
to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the
facts from the fiction.
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.
But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most
dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
The late Eugene Talmadge, in my opinion, possessed one of the better minds of Georgia, or
even America. Moreover, he wore the Phi Beta Kappa key. By all measuring rods, Mr.
Talmadge could think critically and intensively; yet he contends that I am an inferior being. Are
those the types of men we call educated?
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character–that is the
goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration,
but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore,
transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated
experience of social living.
If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical
propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, “brethren!” Be careful, teachers!
Reading Response Annotation Worksheet
Article:
Author:
I.
Rhetorical Context: Who wrote it or created? Why was it written? What is it
trying to do to or for its readers? What is it? Where does it appear? When was
it published?
II.
Annotations: 1. Please provide the definitions of two words from each
paragraph. 2. Write the main idea of each paragraph in your own words.
III.
Summary: What does the text say? What are its main points? What is the
overall argument?
IV.
Evaluation: What can I do with this text? How will I use it to help write my
paper? Does it answer one of my assignment questions? How does it provide
an example of the rhetorical mode we are working on?

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