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What Education Means to Me

April 28, 2016
By IvyCheung BRONZE, Los Angeles, California
IvyCheung BRONZE, Los Angeles, California
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Three Pointers on my Education
“You must be smart because you’re Asian.”

Like nails on a chalkboard, I screak.

1. Intelligence is not decided by a person’s race or ethnicity. 

My grades do not represent my brain capacity
My perseverance
My dedication
towards my education just reveals a small piece of me
Let me educate you
don’t make a few people a representation of a population. 
Don't use your voice to entrench discrimination


2. My school, my community holds infinite capacities for my education.
Tagged wooden tables is where  begin

To me, education is the right.
Stories in classrooms translate into applications of the real world.
Giving me the power to stand up against discrimination at a great height
like a flying kite
Knowledge bites. 

3. To me, Education is not ‘following systematic instructions.’
Color outside the lines
Don’t confine
I have found my passion through the education that's all mine

Education is my anvil for my future career, a civil rights lawyer. 
As I grip my anvil with resoluteness,
I said to the world:
you better watch out


The author's comments:

My active participation in my AP English Language course and my speech class empowered me to find new depths within my education and identity. As a model minority, I aspire to encourge other minorities to search for their liberation, in which mine is my education.


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