Monday, June 08, 2020

James Baldwin on education

James Baldwin’s Lesson for Teachers in a Time of Turmoil by Clint Smith
A talk to teachers by James Baldwin in 1963
 The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. ”

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