Too any of us see education as essentially a preparation for moving up in social status, and as a means of securing a better lifestyle. And certainly, these are some of its major functions.
INTELLIGENCE OF BLACK PEOPLE
Tuesday, 01 May 2007
Too any of us see education as essentially a preparation for moving up in social status, and as a means of securing a better lifestyle. And certainly, these are some of its major functions. However, I do not see them as primary functions of education. I think it is vital that we understand that the major function of education is to help secure the survival of a people. When we talk about maximising the intelligence of black children we are speaking not just in terms of ability to go through school and to get better reading and writing averages and go to the right colleges. We are concerned about enhancing their intelligence so that it can serve as a means for maintaining the actual physical survival of black people. We are now at the crossroads. We are in a pathetic situation as far as the world is concerned. We are in a situation that is exceedingly dangerous, where we questioning whether African peoples survive the next century. And consequently, it’s going to take a different kind of thinking style, a different system of values, and different approach to human relations to get us out of this quandary that we are in today; the quandary the European has put us in. And it’s going to require a different kind of education that what is available today.