When you can convince them that it is cheaper to keep an educated teacher than to keep one who is ignorant, and when you can once demonstrate your value to them not only in an educational respect but industrially and morally, the battle is won, and these people will stand by you and support you.
Washington explains that proving the value of education can lead to community backing for teachers.
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By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.