I can 't justify your numerical comparison of $1.2 Trillion in student loan debt to $19.3 Trillion of Federal debt. However, I think we could both agree that both are a drain on the energy and resources of the average person. Recall that the Federal Government started the student loan program and then promptly turned administration of the program over to their banking buddies. So I can agree with you on your "shyster"
Hugh Auld thought that if a slave learned to read, he would learn enough to want to be free. Even though Sophia couldn’t teach him anymore, Douglass continued to learn.
Douglass’s use of juxtaposition reveals how education is important to becoming a free individual. When Mr. Auld finds out that Douglass was taught to read by his wife, he explains his views on educating a slave; “Which to him was a great evil,
Auld’s wife began to teach Douglass to read. Auld forbade her claiming
Auld felt that it would make him unfit for slavery. At the beginning of the passage, he recalls being sent to live with one of his slave master’s relatives, Hugh Auld. Hugh’s wife begins to teach Douglass to read and write, but he forbade her saying that “it will make Douglass unfit for slavery.” Despite
Frederick Douglass was a slave who wanted to learn how to read. His mistress wanted to teach him but her husband did not approve, so he had to find a different way to learn how to read. He gave the white children down the street bread and in return they would teach him to read. Frederick Douglass grew to not like reading because it reminded him that he would never be free. Douglass’s tone in his Autobiography is angry, this helped him achieve his purpose.
Auld is what started Frederick determination of learning as he got older (3). Soon Mr. Auld found out about him learning and stopped it because he was afraid. So the lessons with Mrs. Auld stopped and Frederick had to learn else where with the white children as well as some of the blacks (3). While being moved from the Aulds he tried to teach the other slaves as an effort to make them more educated of what was going on (3). After that a 16 year old Douglass was moved to another slave owner by the name of Edward Covey (Biography.com Editors).
Fredrick Douglass meets Hugh Auld’s wife Sophia and he is surprised about how nice she is. She does not really know how to treat slaves because she has never had them. A slave with education is said to be a dangerous slave so they are not supposed to be taught. However it seems like Mrs. Auld did not know that, and she began to teach Douglass the Alphabet which is a big turning point in Douglass’s life as a slave. Mr. Auld figures out that his wife has been teaching Douglass, and he puts an end to it, and he tells her how dangerous it is to teach a slave.
A slave that learns to read or write will “become unmanageable” and would do the slave “a great deal of harm” (42). This is true in Frederick Douglass’s case when he finds it easier to kill himself then to life with the knowledge of being a slave for life. Douglass does not only explain the reason that slaves have no desire to learn, but he gives real life examples of people who do want to learn. Douglass himself learns to read and write on his own after his mistress Mrs. Auld teaches him his ABC’s. He becomes determined to learn to read and write that he gets the younger white children to teach him to read by paying them with bread.
As Frederick arrived, she treated him very nice and didn’t really know how to treat him other than that. This is where Frederick struck gold, Sophie Auld didn’t know that you weren’t supposed to teach them how to read or write until her nasty husband told her how they should be treated and she turned into a cruel woman. Another source of reading was the little white boys that Frederick traded Bread with for their knowledge on how to read. The first quote I found in the book is coming from Frederick talking about Mr. Auld. “Just at this point of my progress, Mr. Auld found out what was going on, and at once forbade Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
Frederick Douglass in his narrative “Why I learned to Read and Write” demonstrates how he surpassed many obstacles along the way towards getting an education. These obstacles not only shaped Frederick’s outlook on life but also influenced him in his learning to read and write. Frederick’s main challenge was that of not being an owner of his person but rather a slave and a property to someone else. Frederick Douglass lived in the time when slavery was still taking place and slaveholders viewed slavery and education as incompatible. The slave system didn’t allow mental or physical freedom for slaves; slaveholders were to keep the apt appearance and slaves were to remain ignorant.
He used what he learned so far to give him the drive he needed to get his freedom. After Mr.Auld put a stop the lesson Frederick used the letters that he knew and started put words together. Before long he knew how to read the signs around town. When it was time for him to escape he knew where he was going. The lesson that I got from this that you never stop learning.
“Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass is a personal narrative which describes a specific time in his childhood when he was learning to read and write. Born as a slave in the pre-Civil War south, Douglass was not expected to be literate. However, through strong ambition, Douglass overcame restrictions and stereotypes placed on slaves and taught himself to read and write. Later in his life, Frederick Douglass wrote down this story in his book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845. Today, students and adults can enjoy this narrative on how he overcame the struggles of learning how to read and write.
Frederick has a certain idea of what a “proper” language looks like and even though he despises what he himself calls a la-di-da voice, it might as well just be because he does not have one. Grey likes to make fun of his rigid way of speaking, even though Frederick himself claims he has started to buy an upper-class newspaper in order to charm her with his knowledge. This part of his personality is, along with others, more revealed in Miranda’s part. “C. It’s like I said. M. As I said.
In Frederick Douglass’s narrative essay titled “Learning to Read” he recalls his journey to literacy. Throughout the essay Douglass reveals how he learned to read and write, despite the fact that education was strictly prohibited to slaves. Initially, Douglass learned how to read through his mistress, but he later learned from the little white boys on the streets. As for learning to write, he often times observed ship carpenters and replicated the copy-books of his Master’s son. Frederick Douglass did not have the same opportunities students have today, yet despite his adversities, Douglass was able to become a literate slave, and ultimately free himself from slavery with the power of
