INDUSTRIAL in Classic Quotes

1  In fact, the industrial work is now as popular as the academic branches.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

2  Washington, Principal of an industrial school for coloured people in Tuskegee, Ala.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.

3  Not only this, but the opportunity here afforded will awaken among us a new era of industrial progress.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV.

4  The same principle of industrial education has been carried out in the building of our own wagons, carts, and buggies, from the first.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

5  As a rule, after a student has succeeded in going through the night-school test, he finds a way to finish the regular course in industrial and academic training.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

6  While a great deal of stress is laid upon the industrial side of the work at Tuskegee, we do not neglect or overlook in any degree the religious and spiritual side.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

7  The "calls" to preach, I am glad to say, are not nearly so numerous now as they were formerly, and the calls to some industrial occupation are growing more numerous.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

8  Those delivered before the coloured people had for their main object the impressing upon them the importance of industrial and technical education in addition to academic and religious training.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

9  It is very largely through this effort and influence that during the last few years the subject of industrial education has assumed the importance that it has, and been placed on its present footing.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII.

10  I gave little heed to these protests, except that I lost no opportunity to go into as many parts of the state as I could, for the purpose of speaking to the parents, and showing them the value of industrial education.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

11  I found that during my absence from Hampton the institute each year had been getting closer to the real needs and conditions of our people; that the industrial teaching, as well as that of the academic department, had greatly improved.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

12  At the institution I attended there was no industrial training given to the students, and I had an opportunity of comparing the influence of an institution with no industrial training with that of one like the Hampton Institute, that emphasizes the industries.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

13  At the present time there is almost no Southern state that is not putting forth efforts in the direction of securing industrial education for its white boys and girls, and in most cases it is easy to trace the history of these efforts back to General Armstrong.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.

14  Thus another object which made it desirable to get an industrial system started was in order to make it available as a means of helping the students to earn money enough so that they might be able to remain in school during the nine months' session of the school year.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.

15  Notwithstanding the unpopularity of industrial work, the school continued to increase in numbers to such an extent that by the middle of the second year there was an attendance of about one hundred and fifty, representing almost all parts of the state of Alabama, and including a few from other states.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

16  We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third its intelligence and progress; we shall contribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV.

17  Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV.