My plan was not to teach them to work in the old way, but to show them how to make the forces of nature—air, water, steam, electricity, horse-power—assist them in their labour.
In his autobiography, Washington explains his innovative educational philosophy at Tuskegee, focusing on teaching students to leverage natural forces for efficient labor.
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Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.
This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.
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