SCHOOL in Classic Quotes

1  As I have stated, it was a whole race trying to go to school.

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

2  The time that I was permitted to attend school during the day was short, and my attendance was irregular.

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

3  Before going to school it had never occurred to me that it was needful or appropriate to have an additional name.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
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4  When, however, I found myself at the school for the first time, I also found myself confronted with two other difficulties.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
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5  The opening of the school in the Kanawha Valley, however, brought to me one of the keenest disappointments that I ever experienced.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
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6  It was soon learned that he possessed considerable education, and he was engaged by the coloured people to teach their first school.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
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7  I got the idea that the way for me to reach school on time was to move the clock hands from half-past eight up to the nine o'clock mark.

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

8  One day, while at work in the coal-mine, I happened to overhear two miners talking about a great school for coloured people somewhere in Virginia.

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

9  About this time the question of having some kind of a school opened for the coloured children in the village began to be discussed by members of the race.

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

10  The schoolhouse was some distance from the furnace, and as I had to work till nine o'clock, and the school opened at nine, I found myself in a difficulty.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
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11  The disappointment was made all the more severe by reason of the fact that my place of work was where I could see the happy children passing to and from school mornings and afternoons.

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

12  As it would be the first school for Negro children that had ever been opened in that part of Virginia, it was, of course, to be a great event, and the discussion excited the wildest interest.

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

13  This experience of a whole race beginning to go to school for the first time, presents one of the most interesting studies that has ever occurred in connection with the development of any race.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
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14  I had been working in a salt-furnace for several months, and my stepfather had discovered that I had a financial value, and so, when the school opened, he decided that he could not spare me from my work.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
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15  In fact, I do not remember that up to the time of going to school I had ever worn any kind of covering upon my head, nor do I recall that either I or anybody else had even thought anything about the need of covering for my head.

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

16  This is so to such an extent that Negroes in this country, who themselves or whose forefathers went through the school of slavery, are constantly returning to Africa as missionaries to enlighten those who remained in the fatherland.

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

17  Finally I won, and was permitted to go to the school in the day for a few months, with the understanding that I was to rise early in the morning and work in the furnace till nine o'clock, and return immediately after school closed in the afternoon for at least two more hours of work.

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