Educational awareness is most associated with the illiterate and underprivileged children and youth. These persons do not have the resources to go to school and be educated. This is the first step towards their ignorance. The second is that because they are able to go to school, they do not have the right concept of what school is, moreover its importance.
This is the reason why many able persons want to, and is working on, promoting educational awareness. One of them is Bobby Ray Phills, II. This person is a popular basketball player in the National Basketball Association in the US from 1991 to 2000. He played during the dominance of Michael Jordan and even guarded him. In their first encounter, he held Jordan to only 26 points compared to his career average of 30 points. He limited Jordan to only 11 points from the outside. Phills' NBA career was shortened to nine years because he died of a car accident in 2000. However, he left behind his vision and mission for educational awareness with a foundation which he founded in 1996.
In that time, many less fortunate children and youth are led astray by poverty and helplessness. Many of them think or believe that they can make their lives better through criminal activities. Some of them even succumbed to the idea that they can no longer change their plight. A few were better thinking that sports or entertainment can help them. They are correct; however, they should be informed and taught that education is the best key and that they should put it above sports and entertainment.
Phills, and many philanthropics and social workers knew that they should make the children and youth aware that sports and entertainment should be supplemented by education, that is if the former two are the path they choose. In other words, they should be trained to value education.
