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- Malcolm quit smoking and gambling and refused to eat pork in keeping with the Nation’s dietary restrictions. In order to educate himself, he spent long hours reading books in the prison library, even memorizing a dictionary. He also sharpened his forensic skills by participating in debate classes.
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Malcolm X is a fascinating person to approach as an educational thinker – not because he was an academic or had any scholastic achievements but as an example of what can be achieved by someone engages in ‘homemade’ or self-education.
As the nation’s most visible proponent of Black Nationalism, Malcolm X’s challenge to the multiracial, nonviolent approach of Martin Luther King, Jr., helped set the tone for the ideological and tactical conflicts that took place within the black freedom struggle of the 1960s.
His early education as a child was based largely on teaching methods and learning styles that differed as he aged and became an adult. Knowles’ (1999) theory of andragogy generally explains Malcolm’s adult learning as being different from his learning as a child.
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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African-American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement.
The untold story of how Malcolm pursued education in prison is also the story of how tens of thousands of prisoners have managed to access higher education for the first time in their lives, and to realize their latent intellectual talents by tak-
May 19, 2023 · Civil rights leader Malcolm X was prominent in the Nation of Islam. Learn about his real name, children, assassination in 1965, autobiography, and more.
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