Nelson Mandela

Derek Bradley

B. Delmaine

12/6/13

Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. This quote is a very powerful one, but it can mean volumes of different things in my eyes. There are the traditional senses of education in which a teacher in the front of students would present a lecture in which they would give students the tools to advance their knowledge and give them the ability to do great things with this knowledge, but education can also be used for war and evil. These tools are a lot different when entities such as the Green Berets become involved in a situation. The Green Berets talk to a local population and teach them the skills required to help them in their mission whether it be to kill the enemy population in an area or help them fight for our nation. They teach them how to read, write, count, and communicate through various ways as would a teacher, but the tools that they give the population are much different, so to draw my thoughts to a close education can change the world, but it’s the intent of the teacher that changes the world not just the knowledge gained.