12 JAN 2011 by TGAW

 Malcolm X: Prison versus College

I don’t think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did. In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. Where else but in a prison could I have attacked my ignorance by being able to study intensively sometimes as much as f...
Folksonomies: education malcolmx prison
Folksonomies: education malcolmx prison
   notes

Malcolm X on how he felt prison was a more effective, less distracting learning environment than college would have been.