Monday Matters #20

Jonathan Kozol: Education in America (6 of 6)

In Johnathan Kozol's sixth video he discusses his personal experience in education. He mentions that it was not until he saw how poor education was in the black community, that he began to become political. He, also adds that during his first teaching job, he was fired for giving the students a poem by Langston Hughes. The school did not want to teach about black history. Overall, his point was that we need to learn what we want to learn and what is beneficial to us. It is up to our parents to mold into good students to want to learn and want to succeed.