A Sense of Self Education is the process of acquiring knowledge and developing reasoning and comprehension skills, all of which are crucial for personal development. The processes of education is integral for progress because it stimulates a person’s curiosity and fills in the void of ignorance through learning. It also permits a person to establish his or her own sense of judgment and thought. Therefore, in a sense, education is able to liberate a person from the bindings of a limited knowledge, because it challenges the individual to obtain and explore information unperceived before. All the while it empowers that person by allowing them to build his or her own judgment and sense of self. One great example of a person who found his true potential through education is Malcolm X. In his essay, Learning to Read, Malcolm X reminisces about his experience with education. And the struggles that he went through in order to educate himself and discover his true potential. In his essay, he describes learning to read and educating himself as opening his eyes to a new world which he had never experienced before. Yet, even though he was in prison, he was able to explore the world from the outside through his self-education. And therefore, in a sense, education liberated Malcolm X from the restrictions of prison and allowed him to explore the world through his newfound knowledge. At the beginning of his essay, Malcolm X describes his motivation to educate himself, “I became increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what I wanted to convey in letters that I wrote, especially those to Mr. Elijah MuhammadI saw that the best things I could do was get hold of a dictionary – to study, to learn some words” (X 26-27). Through self-education Malcolm X was able to improve his vocabulary using the dictionary. And from the knowledge which he gained from the dictionary, he was able to apply in understanding the ideas within the books that he read; Allowing Malcolm X to explore a world beyond his jail cell. At the beginn