I want you to get it firmly fixed in your minds that books, industries, or tools of any character, no matter how thoroughly you master them, do not within themselves constitute education.
Washington asserts that true education transcends mere mastery of books or tools.
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The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.
The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.
He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.
The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.