My Larger Education


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This is a sequel to Washington's first autobiographical book, Up From Slavery, which depicted his early life. He says "This book contains answers to the questions I have frequently been asked as to how I have worked out for myself the educational methods which we are now using at Tuskegee; and, finally, to illustrate, for the benefit of the members of my own race, some of the ways in which a people who are struggling upward may turn disadvantages into opportunities." "The fact that I was born a Negro, and the further fact that I have all my life been engaged in a kind of work that was intended to uplift the masses of my people, has brought me in contact with many exceptional persons, both North and South." Chapter after chapter reveals how he raised money from willing white philanthropists to support Tuskegee Institute, how his travels to study European methods of education influenced him, lessons he learned from fellow negros, and how his patient educational approach differed from what many more radical black activists advocated. (Summary by Michele Fry) (7 hr 21 min)

Kapitel

I. Learning from Men and Things 26:01 Gelesen von Michele Fry
II. Building a School Around a Problem 45:14 Gelesen von William Allan Jones
III. Some Exceptional Men, and What I have Learned From Them 41:57 Gelesen von Gini Rosario
IV. My Experience with Reporters and Newspapers 29:55 Gelesen von Kaye Burke
V. The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob 41:40 Gelesen von Tina Ding
VI. A Commencement Oration on Cabbages 44:57 Gelesen von William Allan Jones
VII. Colonel Roosevelt and What I Have Learned From Him 25:30 Gelesen von Tatiana Chichilla
VIII. My Educational Campaign Through the South and What They Taught Me 32:09 Gelesen von Wayne Cooke
IX. What I Have Learned from Black Men 49:16 Gelesen von Michele Fry
X. Meeting High and Low in Europe 32:55 Gelesen von Aaron Weber
XI. What I Learned About Education in Denmark 35:07 Gelesen von Aaron Weber
XII. The Mistakes and the Future of Negro Education 36:20 Gelesen von Aaron Weber