Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
