I do not care how much you get out of history, or geography, or algebra, or literature, I do not care how much you have got out of all your text books:--unless you have got truth, you have failed in your purpose to be educated.
Washington insists that knowledge from textbooks is meaningless without the pursuit of truth.
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This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.
We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
If my life in the past has meant anything in the lifting up of my people and the bringing about of better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more.
Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.