In "the Lesson" It is pointed out that though we are born into poor or lower middle class families there is always a way that we can better inprove ourselves if we decide to. Sometimes we as people find it easier to stay or become more ignorant to the better paths around us because they may take more work. As a society we are very lazy; education, and opportunity for a better life are regularly offered or forced into our hands. Yet because of either our own ignorance or laziness we forcefully throw these opportunities away.
In "Learning to read" Malcolm X took int upon himself in prisonv to teach himself how to better read and write in order to be able to have a more influencial place in society (Malcolm X 211). Most of us in today's society would not even think of teaching our selves to read because we have been taught to read since a young age. We don't even spare a thought to learning to read better once we have the basic skill under our belts.
Often when reading during class people will give up on pronouncing certain long or complicated words and leave it to their peers to fill in the words for them. These pronounciations are readily available in a dictory, but because of our belief that if we have the basic skills most of us do not even know where theirs is, or don't even have one, and have never picked on up in their lives. This is what Malcolm X did automatically seeking this helpful resource copying and reading it aloud to himself in order to learn proper pronounciations (Malcolm X 211).
School also do not push the importance of proper pronounciation after the ages when most learn to read. It seems that most teacher except that some students read well and others just do not and there is no helping them. They do not offer any help for these students, and if a student does desire help they must seek an outside learning center. These centers can be expensive and because of a stigma relating to being seen as 'slow' if you get help for a lack of skills in not only reading but many other subjects reading falls to the side. Most students will even say they 'hate' to read, or dread reading.
To summarize there needs to be a renaissance in todays culture, this movement needs to lead to a resurgence of the want of learning. Schools need to put a renewed focus on reading even in high school. So that the lazy students of todays america will no longer have a social stigma against being too 'stupid' to attend college.
In "Learning to read" Malcolm X took int upon himself in prisonv to teach himself how to better read and write in order to be able to have a more influencial place in society (Malcolm X 211). Most of us in today's society would not even think of teaching our selves to read because we have been taught to read since a young age. We don't even spare a thought to learning to read better once we have the basic skill under our belts.
Often when reading during class people will give up on pronouncing certain long or complicated words and leave it to their peers to fill in the words for them. These pronounciations are readily available in a dictory, but because of our belief that if we have the basic skills most of us do not even know where theirs is, or don't even have one, and have never picked on up in their lives. This is what Malcolm X did automatically seeking this helpful resource copying and reading it aloud to himself in order to learn proper pronounciations (Malcolm X 211).
School also do not push the importance of proper pronounciation after the ages when most learn to read. It seems that most teacher except that some students read well and others just do not and there is no helping them. They do not offer any help for these students, and if a student does desire help they must seek an outside learning center. These centers can be expensive and because of a stigma relating to being seen as 'slow' if you get help for a lack of skills in not only reading but many other subjects reading falls to the side. Most students will even say they 'hate' to read, or dread reading.
To summarize there needs to be a renaissance in todays culture, this movement needs to lead to a resurgence of the want of learning. Schools need to put a renewed focus on reading even in high school. So that the lazy students of todays america will no longer have a social stigma against being too 'stupid' to attend college.
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