Martin Luther King was an excellent student. When he was only fifteen, he went to Morehouse College in Atlanta. He was a clever young man and he finished his studies there in 1948. Mar tin's Iatber wanted him to be a minister, but at first Martin said no. He did not want to follow his father so soon. He was lear ning exciting new ideas from his teachers at Morehouse, and there was so much more that he wanted to know.