What Is Your Personal Motto?

My personal motto would be "Do what you have to do today and you'll be able to do what you want to do tomorrow." I like this personally because it encourages me to strive harder and work hard no so I can have a promising future. Sometimes I get to the point of procrastination, but I use this as a motivator to keep me moving forward to get to where I want to be in life.

In the late 1930's it was hard for the Black Americans and African Americans to get educated, but when they did they knew they had to take it to their best advantages. Without education you have nothing. With education and motivation you have everything. Education is known to be one of the most powerful and courage weapons known to mankind. My generation now do not really take their education seriously not knowing that any day now it can be taken away from them. The generation I live in will have a hard future because they don't understand the value of their education. All kids worry about today is what's the fastest way to make money or what's the newest things out. They fail to realize without an education there is no way they could get a job or basically anything they want. Either they will be in jail locked up or out on the streets homeless.

I was watching a movie a few weeks ago with some friends, this movie was titled The Great Debaters. This movie is about a few talented college students attending school at Willey College in Texas in the United States. These students, lived in the era of active racial segregation in America, but regardless of the color of their skin and the ‘humility’ of their tertiary institution, they became the national debating champions, defeating the likes Oklahoma State University and the reigning champions, the Harvard University Debating Team.

At the beginning of the movie, one of the Willey College professors says the following words, “Education is the only way out. The way out of ignorance, the way out of darkness, into the glorious light”. I took some time to think about this statement and the truth behind it. I then assessed the lifestyles of the different times and the effect that education would have in the different times. I came to a question I couldn’t really answer and give reason for: Is education really the only way out?