Education

Our brains are like gardens at night, filled with hidden blossoms and mysterious beauty.
A good education is the sunlight which nurtures and reveals the splendor. Without a good education, our intellect will remain in the dark, ignorant of the beauty around us. However, who is responsible for the shower of sunlight?
In And I’m Watching It All From My Window, the author Chinaka Hodge suggested that circumstances dictated the way of people’s life. More often than not, children and Teens modeled on their peers, so if their group went astray, they would just follow. This could account for the ongoing high crime rate in Western Oakland, where drug addicts and unmarried mothers were prevalent. There, circumstances taught the children not to strive for the best; they simply acquiesced to the assumption that their future is hopeless. The situation in Western Oakland would remain so until teachers an...