When someone says the name Condoleezza Rice the first thing that comes to most minds is the first black woman to serve as Secretary of State. Serving under both the George Bush and George W. Bush administrations she was once the presidential hopeful for the republican party. Condoleezza Rice may have an extensive political resume but she has always made education a clear priority to her. Growing up in Birmingham Alabama during the civil rights movement she experienced firsthand the effects of segregation but still became the success she is today. At the age of 19 she graduated from the University of Denver with her Bachelors in political science and then went on to earn her masters from there Notre Dame University and in 1981 received her …show more content…
At the 2012 Republican National Convention she said “I’ll go back and be a happy Stanford faculty member. And obviously I’ll do what I can to help this ticket. But my life is in Palo Alto. My future is with my students at Stanford and in public service on issues that I care about like education reform” (biography.com).
In today’s world education is everything. Condoleezza Rice has said that “education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential” (goodreads.com). An education can change a person’s life and give them so many opportunities that weren’t there before. I can use my education to expose myself to new ideas and opportunities that I would never have exposed myself to before.
Condoleezza used her education to transform her own life and to lead others. Knowing that her education is the sole reason she is who she is today pushes me to become more than I am today. Using an education as more than a tool to earn more money may not change the world but it can change my