Real Knowledge
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, knowledge is the “understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study” ("KNOWLEDGE"). While knowledge can be experienced, for most children it is obtained through “study”. They go to school for 8+ hours a day and learn a curriculum established over 100 years ago. Even the structure of the classroom has failed to change. They have one teacher who is in charge, and everybody else is expected to follow their orders and do as they are told. They are taught not to speak up for themselves and to follow the crowd. The bias of these teachers, no matter how well they think that they can hide it, leaks into their classroom and onto the impressionable children. This personal prejudice furthers institutionalized racism inside of the school system. For example, if there is a white teacher, specifically someone from a wea...