The lesson

THE LESSON BY TONI CADE BAMBARA

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The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

Education and learning go beyond the four walls of a classroom . More than the lessons provided by teachers inside the classroom , there are also lessons learned in everyday life and in surroundings . Toni Cade Bambara 's short story 'The Lesson ' shows how lessons about life itself could better be learned outside the typical classroom setting . The lessons that the children are aimed at learning are all about how different

their world is to the world of the white people (Bambara 2007 . The story 's main purpose is to share to its audience the truth about how different the social economic status of the black versus the whites even in a society that is supposed to be democratic and that the only answer to this problem is education and perseverance to be the best

`The Lesson ' used education as a means of letting the children open their eyes to the truth about life . The story focuses on how children from the poor neighborhood are educated about how different the lives are of blacks (poor ) and the whites (rich . This is seen when Ms . Moore sent the children to an expensive toy store at 5th Avenue , the F .A .O Schwartz . This is Ms . Moore 's introduction to what will be the realization of the children of how different the life is at 5th Avenue than in their neighborhood . It...