What W. E. B. Du Bois thinks about education
American scholar and civil rights leader (1868 to 1963); the first Black person to receive a PhD from Harvard; edited The Crisis, a publication of the NAACP.
W. E. B. Du Bois did not write this page.
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Our readingBlack Americans need schooling more than ever, both practical training and higher culture
Their wordsThe training of the schools we need to-day more than ever,-the training of deft hands, quick eyes and ears, and above all the broader, deeper, higher culture of gifted minds and pure hearts.
↗The Souls of Black Folk (1903)gutenberg.org 3rd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsThe function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
↗The Souls of Black Folk (1903)gutenberg.org 7th of 7 in this piece
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