AP Lang FRQ 3 quotes / keywords - Education

When was Pakistan activist Malala Yousafzai shot by the Taliban? How old was she?

2012, 15 years old

A quote by Malala Yousafzai (in her speech at the United Nations Youth Assembly in 2013) empowering individuals to recognize that even their small contribution to education can help transform society.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen chan change the world

A quote by Malala Yousafzai (in her speech at the United Nations Youth Assembly in 2013) suggesting that education threatens oppressive authorities by empowering people to question their control

The extremists are afraid of books and pens. The power of education frightens them.

Key words for Malala Yousafzai

Perseverance, resilience, courage, empowerment, justice, determination

A quote by Tara Westover (during a PBC interview) emphasizing that education is an active, self-directed through which individuals develop their identities rather than merely acquire knowledge

An education is something you take for yourself. It’s a process of becoming.

A quote by Tara Westover (during a PBC interview) illustrating how limited exposure to alternative perspectives can leave individuals dependent on an authority figure’s worldview rather than developing their own

His perspective was my perspective.

A quote from Tara Westover (in her memoir “Educated”) illustrating how education helps individuals recognize possibilies beyond their upbringing, enabling them to envision a life they previously did not realize they could pursue.

Studying the humanities showed me there are other ways of being.

Topics /keywords for Tara Westover

self-liberation, autonomy, education as empowerment, parental influence, self-defined

A quote from Frederick Douglass showing how education gives individuals the language and reasoning skills to articulate their beliefs and challenge dominant ideas

The reading of these documents enabled me to utter my thoughts, and to meet the arguments brought forward to sustain slavery.

A quote by Frederick Douglass revealing that education can increase awareness of injustice even before an individual has the power to change it.

It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy.

key words for Frederick Douglass

self-emanicpation, enlightenment, resilience, determination

when did Frederick Douglass write his first autobiography Narrative of the life of frederick douglass, an american slave

1845

when did Frederick Douglass free himself from slavery

1838, when he was 20