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Booker T. Washington. Working With the Hands
Working With the Hands
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I Moral Values of Hand Work
CHAPTER II Training for Conditions
CHAPTER III A Battle Against Prejudice
CHAPTER IV Making Education Pay Its Way
CHAPTER V Building Up a System
CHAPTER VI Welding Theory and Practice
CHAPTER VII Head and Hands Together
CHAPTER VIII Lessons in Home-Making
CHAPTER IX Outdoor Work for Women
CHAPTER X Helping the Mothers
CHAPTER XI The Tillers of the Ground
CHAPTER XII Pleasure and Profit of Work in the Soil
CHAPTER XIII On the Experimental Farm
CHAPTER XIV The Eagerness for Learning
CHAPTER XV The Value of Small Things
CHAPTER XVI Religious Influences at Tuskegee
CHAPTER XVII Some Tangible Results
CHAPTER XVIII Spreading the Tuskegee Spirit
CHAPTER XIX Negro Education Not a Failure
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Booker T. Washington
Being a Sequel to "Up from Slavery," Covering the Author's Experiences in Industrial Training at Tuskegee
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Often while making these visits, both in the towns and in the plantation districts, I found young men and women who had acquired considerable education, but it seemed to be limited to memorising certain rules in grammar and arithmetic. Some of them had studied both the classic and modern languages, and I discovered students who could solve problems in arithmetic and algebra which I could not master. Yet I could not escape the conviction that the more abstract these problems were, and the further they were removed from the life the people were then living, or were to live, the more stress seemed to be placed upon them. One of the saddest features was to find here and there instances of those who had studied what was called "art" or "instrumental music," in other words "the elegant accomplishments," but who were living in houses where there was no sign of beauty or system. There was not the slightest indication that this art or these accomplishments had had or ever would have any influence upon the life in the homes of these people.
Indeed, it did not seem to have occurred to them that such things ought to have any relation to their every-day life. I found young men who could wrestle successfully with the toughest problems in "compound interest or banking" or "foreign exchange," but who had never thought of trying to figure out why their fathers lost money on every bale of cotton raised, and why they were continually mortgaging their crops and falling deeper into debt. I talked with girls who could locate on the map accurately the Alps and the Andes, but who had no idea of the proper position of the knives and forks on the dinner table. I found those who remembered that bananas were grown in certain South and Central American countries, but to whom it had never occurred that they might be a nourishing and appetising food for their breakfast tables.
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