Summary Of Malcolm X Learning To Read

In “Learning to Read”, Malcolm X, writes about how he was enlightened by the text and novels that he read in prison and discusses how he self educated himself. Malcolm X was more empowered due to his passion in the history of black people in America because he wanted to make a change in the world. The teaching curriculum in America lacks relatable topics that engage young minds. Public schools in America usually lack the opinion of the students. Students would have more of a desire to learn if school wasn’t only about passing. Schools put pressure on students to meet the standards with the consequence that it will later on affect their college and their career. Thus comes along standardized testing, (SAT or ACT) in which these exams force

Malcolm X, though he was self-educated, taught himself some of the world’s problems. On page 191, Malcolm X, states “The teaching of Mr. Muhammad stressed how history had been ‘whitened’ -- when white men had written history had written history books, the black man simply had been left out.” Though Malcolm X’s situation was certainly different than some students in America, he had a sense of self-motivation that was moved by the frustration of not being able to express himself in the way he desired. He later goes on to state, “As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasn’t seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America” (p. 196). Some people in some instances would blame the child or the way the child is brought up for the way they perform in