The more we saw of them, and the more we travelled through the country districts, the more we saw that our efforts were reaching, to only a partial degree, the actual needs of the people whom we wanted to lift up through the medium of the students whom we should educate and send out as leaders.
Washington reflects on the challenges of meeting the educational needs of the community he aimed to uplift through his school.
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