Comparing Frederick Douglas's Learning To Read And Write

Some of us may believe that we can only receive an education in a classroom setting, but they are wrong, that is just one kind of teaching such as a conventional setting. Since there is a conventional setting there is also an unconventional setting such as learning from someone who is not getting paid to teach you, for example, when your family teaches you to walk and talk. Education, in my opinion is one of the greatest gifts a person can receive, since it is something we use in our everyday lives. Sadly, some of people take their education for granted, and decide not to use it wisely, which is wrong because there are children in other countries who are wanting to receive one, but sadly cannot, so that is why we should be grateful we have …show more content…
According to our reading “Learning to Read and Write” we saw how during the time of Frederick Douglass, it was illegal and against the law to teach slaves, but it did not stop from learning. At first we saw how he once had a teacher/mentor and she was his mistress has taught him the alphabet and gave him courage. But it all stopped when the master found out and told the mistress to stop teaching Frederick Douglass, since it was against the law and that was not the correct way to treat slaves. In my opinion, this shows a great sense of motivation because, other people might have just seen this as a sign to stop learning, but it did not stop Frederick Douglass, he just ended up going elsewhere to find a new teacher. This may have been his inspiration for the plan he came up with, which was to convert poor white boys in the streets into his new teachers, in return he will give them some bread as long as they taught him something. With the help of his new teachers, he was learning how to read and write on the other hand, he also received some help from Master Thomas’s copied books because he would copy the text from books word per word. But, overall the book that he greatly Frederick Douglass was a book titled “The Colombian Orator” which shows how a black man stood up to slavery by using his head rather than using his body. If this

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Comparing Frederick Douglas's Learning To Read And Write

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