Education is the process through which acquiring knowledge, skills, and beliefs are facilitated. Education takes place under the guidance of an educator through methods such as training, teaching discussion and research. Learners advance through various levels from kindergarten to college. Everyone has a right to acquire education. Higher education is a voluntary stage of higher learning progress from the secondary education. Most of the students do not like joining the institution of higher education after finishing the basic education. Higher learning is an important tool for competition in white collar jobs. In America, higher education is not compulsory, and students are not obligated to join after the secondary school. For the black Americans in the United States, it has been necessary to advance in the higher education to get better jobs in America. Those who do not join the universities and colleges end up landing in the casual jobs while those who proceed with the higher education get office jobs.
In an article from American.edu website written by Alex M. Johnson, about African Americans being the producers of knowledge, education is the only way the African Americans can have a bargaining power in highly developed economies. African Americans are mostly needed in America for intellectual purposes and pursue the academic scholarships. Education is the only thing that empowers blacks in America, and this is achieved by acquiring higher education. The blacks are the most discriminated race in America. It is believed that their poverty is because of the family history. However, through the acquisition of education, it helps change the family background and helps in acquiring better status in society. There has been much progress in African American education system. However, this has not reduced the discrimination and racism they face in legal and institutional sectors. The blacks’ discrimination can be traced back to the slavery period. During the slavery times, some laws were forbidding the slaves from knowing how to read and write. For this reason, they believed that through education it was the only way the blacks could overpower the whites. That is why education has been the major tool in fighting the discrimination and racism they face from the whites.
Although it is very challenging to attain education it has some major benefits in one’s life. An educated person has a higher social status and value in the community. Their ideas are always taken into consideration they are given a chance to participate in policy making. By partaking higher education for the black Americans, it helps improve their status in the community. The black Americans had to consider higher education as an option. When one is considered as an intellectual and has a high income they cannot be despised. The main reason of the article was to perceive the Africans Americans as the knowledge producers. Most of the Africans tend to go for the ways of acquiring money without having to struggle much. In this, they tend to partake the cheap courses such as teaching so as to start earning. African Americans should go for the better and more intriguing course in the higher learning since they possess more potential learning capabilities
Decimation among the blacks and the whites in America has been there since the slavery period. They were usually discriminated because they were considered dumb and naïve. They whites wanted to maintain this so has to avoid competition this led to denying them the right to learn how to read and write. Over time the blacks have been trying to make this discriminative change, and so far there has been much progress. African has gotten the chance to progress in their education to higher levels. Higher education has helped the African Americans attain reputable standards and gain more respect in the society
References
Johnson, A. (2017). Beyond Higher Education: The Need for African Americans to Be "Knowledge Producers. Digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu. Retrieved 2 February 2017, from http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1127&context=tma
