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On Jan. 18, 2021, as the U.S. celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a particularly pertinent quote supposedly written by the famed civil rights leader about the importance of education started circulating on social media: This is a genuine quote from King. This quote comes from an article King wrote for the Morehouse College student newspaper, The Maroon Tiger, in February 1947, entitled The Purpose of Education. The relevant excerpt from this article appears below: King wrote that one of the chief aims of education is to save man from morass of propaganda and enable individuals to to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. This quote may have felt particular relevant to readers in 2021 as it was circulated in the days following an attack on the U.S. Capitol that was spurred on, in large part, by a disinformation campaign falsely claiming that the presidency had been stolen from Donald Trump by means of election fraud.
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