Education as liberation from Frederick Douglass to Malala Yousafzai
Students explore how literacy and education have been used as tools of liberation across centuries and continents. Through a narrative inspired by Frederick Douglass' discovery of reading as freedom and an account of a girl in the Swat Valley fighting for her right to learn, students discover that education is never politically neutral — and that the fight for knowledge is one of the oldest forms of resistance.
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