education is key Essays - Reconstruction Era,

W. E. B. Du Bois believes that everyone should be fully educated for a change in the life of Americans. In 1903 education was much different than it is now, but there are still a few things that we struggle with that they did. Race, and the desire to learn are the main elements of why then and now we can?t live a more sophisticated life. Education is clearly important to Du Bois and believing that every man is equal and deserves the same in learning. A formal education calls sometimes for more success, money, and overall better living. The more people that have an education, I believe, can realize what is wrong with the world and learn of the race struggle in it. I believe Du Bois feels the same. Education can take an individual and make that individual realize what he/she is missing out on, and the differences we have in the world. The student will learn of past and present race situations and hopefully make that individual help with the cause. The fight against race in 1903 has gotten a little bit better, but not as well as Du Bois would have hoped. We allow different races to enjoy all the same things and share the same education, unfortunately there are still people that don?t agree with sharing these things with a different colored person. Du Bois believes that education could help an individual gain respect for the problems at hand and try to fight for equality. Achieving the fight against race, would allow everyone?s hate for other colored people?s life to go away and all of us be friends, well maybe. Like I?ve stated before, education has moved us a little farther with the battle, but not everyone is educated. Probably half of the kids that start school drop out becau se they don?t have the drive, or they just hate being educated because they?re stuck up their own butt?s. Du bois is trying to find a reason to get people to be motivated about learning, but is very hard when people just want mediocre jobs. How do you feel when someone tells you, ?Good Job!? I bet you feel really good about yourself and you keep doing that good thing, which could lead into several good things. Do you feel a sense of achievement? If all leadership roles could learn to use constructive criticism, instead of bashing and picking little things. This applies to schooling, and why I believe most kids drop out, and we have so much poor families. If we could learn to find positive things in everything and not little things, because nobody wants to hear they?re a failure. When you feel you?ve achieved something in school, like getting an ?A? on a test or paper, you keep that paper in mind and keep doing well. When a teacher in a higher educative stance pulls you in front of the class and makes fun of your test or paper, it?ll put you down right? Well Du Bois definitely doesn?t want that to happen, he wants an individual to feel achievement and feel like they can do good. The experience of life without an education can be very tough on you and your family. Working a minimum wage job, raising two kids, and having to pay bills can probably be very tough. When having a college degree, higher paying jobs are more likely and a better way of living. You have more of a variety of what you can do, and will get more opportunities than someone with just a GED. People with some kind of college degree can earn over a million more dollars in a lifetime than a person with just a GED. In today?s economy, you need to have a higher education, or you won?t get high paying jobs. Everyone can go on to college and make a better life for themselves, they just have to have drive and determination. Du Bois? essay should be read in high school?s, just to give them the realization that everything isn?t what they seem, life isn?t served on a silver platter. With the goals that he set, I don?t believe we can ever reach without everybody knowing what