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unless all this training of head and hand is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing.
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“unless all this training of head and hand is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing.”

Booker T. Washington

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Character Building
Date
1902
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Knowledge and practical skill are not sufficient in Washington’s educational ideal unless they are joined to the character with which those abilities are used.

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Character Building, “What Would Father and Mother Say?”, Project Gutenberg #60484. This is Washington’s normative theory of education and character, not a modern educational outcome study.

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