Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Derrick A. Bell
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy....
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy....
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy....
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy....
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Educating yourself is a necessary step toward understanding others. It’s important to fully understand the world around you. There are no shortcuts to knowing everything. Educating yourself is best done through research and reading.

This way, you can gain a better understanding of the world around you. As you gain this knowledge, it will open your eyes to the stories behind the news. You will be able to see things for what they are, not what the media tells you they are supposed to be.

Education leads to enlightenment, which is when you can truly see what others are feeling and know what they are thinking. Once you have an insight into others, it sets the stage for empathy. You can then work towards doing something about it.

For example, you can think about how your actions affect others and come up with ways to change the world around you for the better. This process of education leading to enlightenment and then empathy leading to reform is much easier if people don’t live in fear of each other or make decisions based on their own fears and prejudices instead of their emotions or logic.

Source: Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism

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