Dr. Lathardus Goggins II is the owner of and an education consultant for The Mawasi Company, and author of books African Centered Rites of Passage and Education and Bringing The Light Into A New Day. In addition, he has written numerous articles on African-Centered Education, Parental Engagement (Involvement), Urban Education reform and policy, and use of the rites of passage model as a tool educational assessment.
Dr. Goggins has made numerous presentations on a variety of subjects, such as Developing Consciousness, Manhood from a Black Consciousness Perspective, Operating in Cultural Diversity, the celebration of Kwanzaa, and African Centered Rites of Passage as a Factor for Positive Academic Success at local, regional, and national conferences.
Dr. Goggins has been a social and community activist for the past twenty years. He has supported and organized a variety of community-based groups and events. He has also traveled extensively throughout the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Australia, Mexico, Panama, The Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom (England) and Africa in the countries of Ghana, Senegal, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Dr. Lathardus Goggins II is a proud graduate of John R. Buchtel (University) High School; Class of 1984. Goggins earned his Bachelor of Arts in Geography, a Masters of Education in Cultural Foundations of Education, and a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership. Dr. Goggins has also received certificates in AIDS/HIV prevention for African Americans, African American Studies, and African Rites of Passage Facilitation and Instruction. However, his greatest sense of accomplishment is being the proud daddy of three and husband to a loving wife.
Romans 12: 1 - 21 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is true worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Ro 12:3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
Ro 12:9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
Ro 12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not think you are superior.
Ro 12:17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. 18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 On the contrary:
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Ro 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Every man must decide whether to walk in the creative Light of altruism or the destructive darkness of selfishness... This is the final judgment. Life's most persistent and urgent question is; what are you doing for others? -- Martin L. King Jr.
If I'm not the person you say I am, then you are not the person you think you are. -- James Baldwin
Strategy is better than strength. -- Hausa Proverb
Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on the objectives, we should never fall out with each just because we believe in different methods or tactics or strategy........ We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society. -- El Hajj Malik El Shabazz
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. -- El Hajj Malik El Shabazz
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his "proper place" and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his own benefit. -- Dr. Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education Of The Negro
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself, but not the enemy, for every victory gain you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus, the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win. -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
A man who will not labor to gain his rights, is a man who would not, if he had them, prize and defend them. -- Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lighting. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. -- Frederick Douglass
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