TAUGHT in Classic Quotes

1  Later she taught in the city of Memphis.

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

2  , taught me how to use and love the Bible.

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

3  The girls were not taught to cook, sew, or to take care of the house.

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

4  During these two weeks I was taught a lesson which I shall never forget.

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

5  These girls were taught by their mothers, in rather a crude way it is true, the industry of laundrying.

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

6  I knew that I could sweep, for Mrs. Ruffner had thoroughly taught me how to do that when I lived with her.

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

7  From the first, this was crowded every night, being about as large as the school that I taught in the day.

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

8  Without regard to pay and with little thought of it, I taught any one who wanted to learn anything that I could teach him.

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

9  In addition to this, she worked among the older people in and near Tuskegee, and taught a Sunday school class in the town.

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

10  The lesson that my mother taught me in this has always remained with me, and I have tried as best as I could to teach it to others.

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

11  The work was not easy in either place, but in all my teaching I never taught pupils who gave me much genuine satisfaction as these did.

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

12  The state had not been able to build schoolhouses in the country districts, and, as a rule, the schools were taught in churches or in log cabins.

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

13  In addition to the usual routine of teaching, I taught the pupils to comb their hair, and to keep their hands and faces clean, as well as their clothing.

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

14  On Sundays I taught two Sunday-schools, one in the town of Malden in the afternoon, and the other in the morning at a place three miles distant from Malden.

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

15  The lessons taught me in this respect took such a hold upon me that at the present time, when I am at home, no matter how busy I am, I always make it a rule to read a chapter or a portion of a chapter in the morning, before beginning the work of the day.

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

16  I recall that during the first months of school that I taught in this building it was in such poor repair that, whenever it rained, one of the older students would very kindly leave his lessons and hold an umbrella over me while I heard the recitations of the others.

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

17  I heard one tell the other that not only was the school established for the members of any race, but the opportunities that it provided by which poor but worthy students could work out all or a part of the cost of a board, and at the same time be taught some trade or industry.

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