As I have stated in an earlier post, my Freshmen English class has read The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and we are talking about what we have learned from the book. I have taken on varieties of knowledge from this book, but what I want to talk about is my new-found knowledge of leadership. From this book I learned that "people and time bring forth leaders, leaders don't bring forth people". This is a quote from Miss Jane, the main character of the novel, and it really helped me understand freedom a little bit more. This quote made me realize that someone can't just wake up, decide they want to be a leader, and actually expect it to happen. Leaders are made from the circumstances being just right, and someone steps up and he/she says that he/she will take on this role of leading these people. Before this book I understood what a leader was, but I didn't quite realize all the aspects of leading until now. Now I realize that you can't make leadership happen, it just naturally happens. I chose this picture of Martin Luther King Jr. to depict this post because just like Miss Jane said, this leader did not bring these people out; they brought him out.
