From Philosophy Statement Students must be “culturally literate.” We believe that culture is a complex set of relationships that express a people’s ideas, beliefs and knowledge and that the representations of cultural ideology in art, music, literature and philosophy are fluid and ever changing as cultures interact with other cultures and with changing historical times. 9) Woodson Paper- From your reading write an analytically effective paper on what Woodson said and how reading the Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson could make an impact on your future teaching.