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FREDERICK DOUGLASS ON EDUCATION
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This paper discusses a quotation by Frederick Douglass, and its relevance for the benefits and the disadvantage that come with education. The discussion centers around the views of Douglass on the brutal experiences faced by slaves.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS ON EDUCATION Frederick Douglas see Douglass O\'Meally once wrote As I writhed under it I would at times feel that learning to read has been a curse rather that a blessing It has given me a view of my wretched condition without the remedy it opened my eyes to the horrible pit but no ladder upon which to get out In moments of agony I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity I have often wished myself a beast I preferred
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He did and,moreover, he found it in education itself (Douglas, 1894). Simply put, what Douglas was sayingwas that education can make us realize what we (as well as others) haveendured to its fullest painful detail. Anyone who has read the passage in SHOGUN when the main characterrealizes how much more hygienic as well as civilized Japanese society iswhen compared to the brutal and filthy conditions of his life in his ownhomeland, a life which he accepted once as so sweet, or who has read themoment when the main character in FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON has finally becomeintelligent enough to recognize how difficult his life was when he wasretarded (a difficulty he was too deficient in intelligence to understanduntil that moment) can immediately relate to what Frederick Douglass istalking about in the above quotation. With each recollection, now so well polished byeducation, comes the pain of understanding how desperately awful it is. anything no matter what to get rid of thinking. Document available at: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=543.Douglass, F., & O'Meally, R. FREDERICK DOUGLASS ON EDUCATION Frederick Douglas (see Douglass & O'Meally, 2 5) once wrote: As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read has been a curse rather that a blessing . Blessing of liberty and education. This is why he dedicated himself so fully to education. Education can show us eachmerciless component, part, and/or element of what has been experienced incertain grim conditions and that revelation can be assaultive. it opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but no ladder upon which to get out. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. However, it often cannotimmediately provide an answer for stopping that pain or ending that evil.Education can sometimes allow one to 'see' but not necessarily provide themuch needed resolution or correction or fix for that which is seen. Barnes & Noble/Sterling. (2 5). This is oneof the terrible disadvantages of education; it can unpack a given worldlyexperience and show a person the exact parameters that bind it, parametersof evil and wretchedness and great pain. His education and the understanding thatit conveyed of slavery in general and his life as a slave in particular,was too mean, too evil, too brutal, and way too difficult for him to cometo peace with. In moments of agony. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the above quote and itsrelevance for the benefits and the disadvantage that come with education.The discussion centers around the views of Frederick Douglass. But in Douglass' case, there was one more assault in that educationprovided him with no remedy for ending the pain and brutality andheartlessness of the circumstances slavery had created. The narrative life of Frederick Douglass, An American slave. It was showing himHell with no Salvation doctrine to accompany the observation. It can beassaultive because it can weigh on the mind and be brought to consciousnessover and over and again. G. Heunderstood that sometimes it can bring a burden such as it did for him; buthe also eventually understood its inherent ability to bring relief from theburden. I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity. I have often wished myself a beast. It was the everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. ReferencesDouglass, F. The above is what Douglass meant when he said he would endureanything to get rid of thinking. It has given me a view of my wretched condition without the remedy. As Douglas sawit the eventual refutation of slavery and all it stood for would come outof an intelligent free black population of good citizens with good values,all of which would be strengthened and reinforced in the population througheducation. However, Douglass' failure to find remedy at the moment should not bethought to mean that he did not eventually find a remedy. Now that he understood fully the nature of the experience ofslavery it began to come to mind repeatedly and it did so as an assaultbecause of the lack of peace and pain that now accompanied his totalperception of the experience, a perception shaped by education. (September 3, 1894).
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