Too often, it seems to me, in missionary and educational work among underdeveloped races, people yield to the temptation of doing that which was done a hundred years before, or is being done in other communities a thousand miles away.
Washington critiques the common pitfall in educational and missionary efforts of replicating outdated or distant methods without considering local needs.
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