The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
Reflecting on his life, Washington asserts the superior value of learning through personal interaction with influential individuals compared to formal academic instruction.
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How shall we make the mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest cabin in Alabama cotton-fields or Louisiana sugar-bottoms?
In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.
This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.