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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY Monday, January 17th, 2022 This year marks the 27th anniversary of the national day of service. This day was established to honor the life and legacy of Dr. King and to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. Americans celebrated the first official Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the only federal holiday commemorating an African-American, on Monday, January 20, 1986. In 1994, Congress designated the holiday as a national day of service, and marking the third Monday in January every year as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. Dr. King advocated for non-violent resistance to overcome injustice as a means of lifting racial oppression. Dr. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964; the youngest person ever to receive the high honor. On April 4, 1968 at age 39, Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee as he stood on the balcony of his hotel. Dr. King had traveled to Memphis to lead a march in support of striking sanitation workers.
According to Dr. King, the purpose of education is to enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character, that is the true goal of education. Source: Department of Defense Education; https://www.dodea.edu/dodeaCelebrates/MLK.cfm
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