Tupac Shakur and My Educational Experience

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Tupac Shakur and My Educational Experience
Tupac
Shakur
learned most of what he found to be of value in his own experience. He felt that formal education was largely irrelevant, because it didn’t have a connection to reality.
Tupac
was born to a mother that had disdain for authority, and he himself could not recognize any value in the system.
Tupac
was a revolutionary, not just against the ‘system’, but against any system.
Tupuc
Shakur
“was born into the movement" (Pratt as cited in Dyson 48). That movement, the civil rights movement was contorted by the time
Shakur
was mature to include any form of adversarial action against status quo. As a result of such desperate perspectives,
Tupac
had a utilitarian view of what education should be,...

.....e my intelligence, not change who I was. I think schools are as good as they can possibly be. I think if anything, parents should be in school to learn how to properly raise their children so that the children would learn how to behave properly, so that when they went to school, they could focus on learning. Imagine how successful schools could become if they could just focus on teaching subject matter to students, rather than trying to train their behavior so that they become productive citizens. I don’t fault the schools; I fault parents who spawn children without thinking for a minute about how they will morally and ethically teach them so that they can take advantage of the free education that the public school system in America offers.