Yes, higher education is a GOOD thing
From AP/Yahoo:
Spike Lee says the value of education is being overshadowed by the images that gangsta rap glorifies....
He drew two standing ovations Wednesday night as a featured speaker at a conference on cultural diversity at Middle Tennessee State University.
The 48-year-old filmmaker...urged students to find a way to make being educated cool again....
He likened the images from some rap videos to the distorted view minstrel shows of the 19th century gave most of the world about American blacks.
Lee said he has tried through his films, which include "School Daze," "Do the Right Thing," "Jungle Fever" and "Malcolm X," to show the diversity of the black experience.
You'd think that one of the world's tallest MBAs would make a positive impression on youth.
The man who once called himself the Big Aristotle was the tallest and most famous of the 2,200 University of Phoenix graduates at the arena. But O'Neal said he was simply getting ready for the real world.
"It's just something to have on my resume (for) when I go back into reality," the 7-foot-1 Miami Heat center said before picking up his master's in business administration. "Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else."...
O'Neal left Louisiana State University as a junior in 1992 to go professional, but made good on a promise to his mother to graduate by earning a bachelor's in business from LSU in 2000.
For the University of Phoenix, a national for-profit college that caters to working adults, the Big Graduate did online work and, before he was traded, attended classes several days a week at a West Los Angeles campus....
He previously took courses at a police academy and said he'll aim for a degree in criminal justice. He hopes to eventually work as a sheriff or police chief and said he met people in those top positions with advanced degrees....
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