Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (Annotated)【電子書籍】[ Booker T. Washington ]

＜p＞＜br /＞ Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal experiences in working to get from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schoolsーmost notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabamaーto help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and native Americans. He depicts his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feeling of dignity to students. His educational philosophy stresses combining academic subjects with learning a trade (something which is reminiscent of the educational theories of John Ruskin). Washington explained that the integration of practical subjects is partly designed to reassure ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る