If a school is a public school, call it one; but do not think that we gain anything by calling a little country school, with two or three rooms and one or two teachers, where some of the students are studying the alphabet, a university.
Washington stresses the importance of accurately naming schools to reflect their true nature rather than inflating their status.
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The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.
I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.
The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.
From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.