Essay Question 4: “Industry as a Means of Education”
Today we view the highest form of education as one of the Doctoral degrees, and technically these are the highest form of education, well book-based education at least. How would we, African-American people of the 21st century, assimilate into a time period where the major source of academic growth and excellence is through a more industrialized education? Would we excel, or would we fall off of the boat faster than ever before? Coming from the mindset that Booker T. Washington had, an industry-based education would be the best way to advance together as a race. Now this method of enrichment may have seemed pesky ,and this due to the some of the many challenges that Washington had to face in order to erect this system of learning. One of these major issues was the lack of money. The Tuskegee Institute had to find funding for virtually all of …show more content…
This issue was solved by the generous donations of benefactors to the Institute, along with some teamwork on the ground by Washington, Miss Davidson, and other members of the staff. “The first time I ever saw the late Collis P. Huntington, the great railroad man, he gave me two dollars for our school...generous proportions which came every year from both Mr. and Mrs. Huntington.” (Washington 129) People such and the Huntingtons and Carnegie are some the reasons why the school was able to function in the manner that it did.
The money that donors like these provided allowed for the erection of many buildings, but they weren’t the reason that these various buildings were built. The students were in charge of building a grand majority of the buildings that exist on the
Today we view the highest form of education as one of the Doctoral degrees, and technically these are the highest form of education, well book-based education at least. How would we, African-American people of the 21st century, assimilate into a time period where the major source of academic growth and excellence is through a more industrialized education? Would we excel, or would we fall off of the boat faster than ever before? Coming from the mindset that Booker T. Washington had, an industry-based education would be the best way to advance together as a race. Now this method of enrichment may have seemed pesky ,and this due to the some of the many challenges that Washington had to face in order to erect this system of learning. One of these major issues was the lack of money. The Tuskegee Institute had to find funding for virtually all of …show more content…
This issue was solved by the generous donations of benefactors to the Institute, along with some teamwork on the ground by Washington, Miss Davidson, and other members of the staff. “The first time I ever saw the late Collis P. Huntington, the great railroad man, he gave me two dollars for our school...generous proportions which came every year from both Mr. and Mrs. Huntington.” (Washington 129) People such and the Huntingtons and Carnegie are some the reasons why the school was able to function in the manner that it did.
The money that donors like these provided allowed for the erection of many buildings, but they weren’t the reason that these various buildings were built. The students were in charge of building a grand majority of the buildings that exist on the