Brilliant Bobby is a fantastic book that interweaves the importance of using lessons from the past to shape your future success. Teaching the importance of family, community, and self-education to build knowledge and form healthy relationships that lead to positive outcomes. The author, White, creates an avenue that causes young people and adults alike to appreciate what it means to educate, educare, which means to train or to mold, and "educere, " meaning to lead out. White cause us to envisage the real power of affirming one's self.