Education Should Be On Your Mind

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:29.8	I so respect this Corey Brooks.
0:34.0	I'm sure many of you have heard of him.
0:36.4	I'm just going to read the article. It's fabulous. Listen up.
0:43.6	He writes, education has been on my mind a lot lately as I continue my walk across America
0:48.7	through the gentle hills of North Carolina. Part of why I'm doing this walk is that I have seen how the
0:56.5	lowering of education standards over the last 60 years have devastated black communities,
1:02.7	such as the one I live in on the south side of Chicago. Without a proper education, one cannot
1:08.9	go far in life in America.
1:16.4	It's my ambition to reverse this insidious and life-sucking trend everywhere in America.
1:20.9	And when I reached the city of Raleigh, I decided to visit two schools.
1:22.9	I heard we're successful.
1:27.1	The school for the boys is called Iron Academy. The girl's school is called Academy 31.
1:32.3	They both sit on the same campus, separate buildings, and their mission is the same.
1:39.2	Raised kids the way God designed for them, strong in faith and ready for life. When I walked into Iron Academy,
1:47.0	the boys looked me in the eye and shook my hand like men. They talked about responsibility like it
1:54.2	was normal. I'm so used to stressing responsibility to my own youth that it is sometimes startling when I see it
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