2008 Woodie Awards
Under pressure
By: Melissa Appel
Issue date: 8/27/08 Section: News
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After all, the phone conversation I experienced with Cosby was anything but your typical interview.
Cosby was uninterested in answering the questions reporters usually bring to the table. Instead, he jumped right into educational advice for all college students.
Throughout his comic career, William H. Cosby Jr. has had considerable interest and concentration in the field of education. He received a bachelor's degree from Temple University in Philadelphia,PA. Later, he earned his master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Massachusetts.
His doctorate dissertation stressed a combination of comedy and education, "An Integration of the Visual Media via 'Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids' Into the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased Learning'' understands the work and pressure that accompany an education.
"Pressure. People talk about pressure like it's going to be 30 lashes on your back with your cat of nine tails with your shirt ripped open at the back and the salt air. Pressure" Cosby said.
"At Temple University, the person who founded Temple University called it 'Acres of Diamonds.' Now, when you think about a diamond, you very simply ask yourself, 'What makes the quality of a diamond, that which was a piece of coal?' And the answer is pressure."
College students certainly understand pressure. It comes from everywhere in their lives - professors, organizations, relationships and parents.
"They [your mother and father] had expectations-things they were going to give you and set up for you, things that they believed in to help you form this wonderful foundation of knowing how to protect yourself against 'evils,'" Cosby said.
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