My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience
1911
My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience
1911
My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience, published in 1911 by Booker T. Washington, is a collection of essays reflecting on his life as an educator and leader in the African American community during the post-Civil War era. Washington discusses the challenges he faced as a former slave and how these experiences shaped his educational philosophies, particularly his work at the Tuskegee Institute. The book addresses his views on education, the importance of resilience, and his controversial stance on civil rights, offering insights into the complexities of race and identity in early 20th-century America.
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“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.””
— Booker T. Washington
“I have gotten a large part of my education from actual contact with things, rather than through the medium of books. I like to touch things and handle them; I like to watch plants grow and observe the behaviour of animals.””
— Booker T. Washington
“Experience has taught me, in fact, that no man should be pitied because, every day in his life, he faces a hard, stubborn problem, but rather that it is the man who has no problem to solve, no hardships to face, who is to be pitied.””
— Booker T. Washington
“the long and bitter political struggle in which he had engaged against slavery had not prepared Mr. Douglass to take up the equally difficult task of fitting the Negro for the opportunities and responsibilities of freedom. The same was true to a large extent of other Negro leaders. At the time when I met these men and heard them speak I was invariably impressed, though young and inexperienced, that there was something lacking in their public utterances. I felt that the millions of Negroes needed something more than to be reminded of their sufferings and of their political rights; that they needed to do something more than merely to defend themselves.””
— Booker T. Washington
“it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together.””
— Booker T. Washington
“It is pretty hard, however, to help a young man who has started wrong. Once he gets the idea that”
— Booker T. Washington
“it takes no more time to be polite to every one than it does to be rude.””
— Booker T. Washington
“In dealing with newspaper people, whether they are white or black, there is no way of getting their sympathy and support like that of actually knowing the individual men, of meeting and talking with them frequently and frankly, and of keeping them in touch with everything you do or intend to do.””
— Booker T. Washington
“One thing that has taught me to dislike politics is the observation that, as soon as any person or thing becomes the subject of political discussion, he or it at once assumes in the public mind an importance out of all proportion to his or its real merits.””
— Booker T. Washington
