<p>"College isn't the place to go for ideas." --- Helen Keller</p>
<p>"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." ---James A. Garfield</p>
<h2>ASSIGNMENT: Does higher education stifle ideas and freedom, or is it essential to them? </h2>
<p>Higher education is not always necessary in conceiving brilliant ideas. Although it is plausible to say it helps, if one has ample ambition they themselves may reach a level of understanding and thinking that would be of their own and not influenced by some college professor. </p>
<p>In the novel, Black Boy, Richard Wright is a southern African American boy with a passion for knowledge and inclination to rebellion. In his childhood he had been thoroughly beaten for questioning the world and its motives. One may think this would hinder his growth and learning but instead fueled it. He burned through books trying to understand why black people were treated differently, why they didnt try to rebel, and what kept them ignorant. He ventured into libraries risking his life to borrow books. He skipped meals in order to purchase periodicals. He was a self-taught world class man. </p>
<p>Richard Wright, through his reading, had a better grasp of the world than many highly educated white men in America. His lack of education further sparked in him a passion, a fire, that would transform into is biographical novel sitting now classrooms across America. He overcame barriers and reached prosperity in a world that said You cant! Because youre Black! and he did this all without college education.</p>