Intelligence Plus Character

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Duckworth ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
College Men ◽  
College Campus ◽  
The Real ◽  
Common Mistake ◽  
Purpose Of Education ◽  
Morehouse College ◽  
Campus Newspaper ◽  
Martin Luther King

When you walk into the Character Lab office, the very first thing you'll see are the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” The quote comes from an essay King published in the Morehouse College campus newspaper around his 18th birthday. King opens his argument with an observation: “I too often find that most college men have a misconception of the purpose of education.” A common mistake, he says, is in seeing only one of two aims. The more obvious goal of education is “to become more efficient,” particularly in “thinking logically and scientifically.” Today, we might say we send our kids to school to become critical thinkers. “Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.” Another—perhaps less obvious—goal is to cultivate character: “But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society,” King wrote. “The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.”

The Preacher King

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Lischer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
The Real ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
Later Phase ◽  
Police Surveillance

This book investigates Martin Luther King, Jr.’s religious development from a precocious “preacher’s kid” in segregated Atlanta to the most influential American preacher and orator of the twentieth century. To give an intimate portrait, the book draws almost exclusively on King’s unpublished sermons and speeches, as well as tape recordings, personal interviews, and even police surveillance reports. By returning to the raw sources, it recaptures King’s real preaching voice and, consequently, something of the real King himself. The book shows how as the son, grandson, and great-grandson of preachers, King early on absorbed the poetic cadences, traditions, and power of the pulpit, as profoundly influenced by his fellow African-American preachers as he was by Gandhi and the classical philosophers. The book also reveals a later phase of King’s development: the prophetic rage with which he condemned American religious and political hypocrisy. During the last three years of his life, the book shows, King accused his country of genocide, warned of long hot summers in the ghettos, and called for a radical redistribution of wealth.

scholarly journals Repetition Values on Martin Luther King Jr. Speech

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Mas Darul Ihsan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Real ◽  
Famous People ◽  
Lincoln Memorial ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Martin Luther King

There are so many speeches delivered by such famous people in this world. But, if we are asked to give the point of view about the impact of each speech delivered then the speech from Martin Luther King Jr. will convey the high meaning in term of rethorical speech especially the content and the context about the concepts of repetition found. The speech was on 28th of August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C in a verbal ways and its text become the secondary data to be analyzed with much focus on emphasizing phrases, words or sentences. By using the concept of rethoric perspective through repetition such as anaphora, epistrophe and epizeuzis, the researcher wants to know the values behind the repetition. That is why, the analysis is using the descriptive qualitative research on taking the secondary data that has been adapted from the video and the text of the speech itself. The conclusion especially on the ideas of repetition are that Martin Luther King Jr. tries to make sure his audiences about that 1) the repetition is something more that the meaning itself, it is above. 2) The struggle, it is something true, needs to be realized in the real life, and adds the weight of the expection to be equal and free.

scholarly journals Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Custodian of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection: “Until Further Notice”

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-166
Author(s):  
Loretta Parham
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
University Center ◽  
Morehouse College ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
E Mail

On June 23, 2006, the American Library Association was holding its Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, the first major conference to return to the city post Hurricane Katrina. My scheduled visit of four days was abruptly cut short as a result of two communications: a call from Walter Massey, President of More-house College in Atlanta, Georgia, and an e-mail from William Potter, Dean of the University of Georgia Libraries. By the time the day was over, I learned that a collection of manuscripts and books documenting many of the writings, speeches, and notes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. . . .

Apprenticed to the Word

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-66
Author(s):  
Richard Lischer
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Morehouse College ◽  
Urban Congregations ◽  
Theological Argument ◽  
Martin Luther King

This chapter describes the individuals who influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. as a preacher. It was from Benjamin E. Mays, president of Morehouse College, that King first heard the challenge “Clearly, then, it isn’t how long one lives that is important, but how well he lives, what he contributes to mankind and how noble the goals toward which he strives. Longevity is good . . . but longevity is not all-important.” King paraphrased this sentiment many times in his career, perhaps most poignantly in his speech in Memphis the night before his death. King also discovered three mediating influences who, like Mays, appreciated a good theological argument and, like King Sr., sat astride enormous urban congregations. These influences were William Holmes Borders, Sandy Ray, and Gardner C. Taylor.

Stylistic Vehicle Patterns of Illness as an Ideological Tool in Understanding the Speeches of Martin Luther King Junior and the Plays of Bate Besong

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
SEINO Evangeline Agwa Fomukong
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
The Real ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
The World ◽  
Physical Shape ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
What Matters

The meaning of words is to be derived from the relations between words, concepts and things in the real world. Words have a representational or symbolic meaning, that is, they are about something that goes beyond the physical shape that have meanings. Any communication is only successful to the extent that the idea the hearer or the reader gets is the same idea that the speaker or writer intended the hearer or reader to get. What matters is how the world is represented, construed by means of linguistic expressions and how our reports about reality are influenced by conceptual structures inherent in our language. These structures can be metaphoric, carrying connotations as in this study. The study looks at the use of illness related diction to show the ideological outlook of Martin Luther King Junior and Bate Besong. The groupings of the metaphor vehicles portray that both Martin Luther King Junior and Bate Besong follow the discourse dynamics, showing interconnectedness of the dimensions of metaphor used in their works, unravelling vehicle patterns of systematic metaphor of illness.

The Why of Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Duckworth ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Student Newspaper ◽  
Child Psychologist ◽  
Purpose Of Education ◽  
Martin Luther King

What do we hope for when we send children to school?  This is the question Martin Luther King, Jr. posed in an essay entitled “The Purpose of Education,” published in the Morehouse student newspaper around the time of his 18th birthday. King's answer: “Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” But what, then, is character? This is the question child psychologist Diana Baumrind addressed, toward the end of an illustrious career, in an essay entitled “Reflections on Character and Competence.”   Character, Baumrind writes, “provides the structure of internal law that governs inner thoughts and volitions subject to the agent's control under the jurisdiction of conscience.” 

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