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“education ought to do more for a boy”

Booker T. Washington

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Working With the Hands
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1904
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Washington rejects an overly narrow definition of schooling and asks whether education can improve the practical conditions and responsibilities of life.

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Working With the Hands, Chapter I; Project Gutenberg #64504. This short excerpt precedes Washington’s discussion of poverty, family responsibility and practical education.

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