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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These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.
I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.
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