For the Co-Curricular day I attended the MK Asante seminar. Throughout the seminar he would read from his book Buck because it's about his life growing up on the Streets of Philly. How he was in and out of high schools and his struggles with education growing up. He was at a point in his life where there were no high schools that would admit him because of the trouble he had been in through previous schools.
From there he drifted away from it and was just another African American living in the hood, selling drugs, and being alone with no family because they were institutionalized, his mother in an insane asylum, and is brother in prison. But then his mother, asks him to go back to school. From there he talked about how he truly found his love for education by reading material he was actually interested in, things he could relate to about his life and his struggles. He then talked about his road to fame and fortune. If I took anything from his seminar it was that education doesn't have to be something where you dread going to class or reading the textbook, or learning material you don't have an interest in. It's something that applies to everyone, no matter where you are from or who you are, you have to be learning about something you can relate to and really have an interest in. So schools around the country shouldn't be pushing books that appealed to adults now, they should be pushing books that appeal to us students today, because without interest in the subject retention of the information will not be effective, and the drive to actually do said work will not be there.
