THE SCHOOL in Classic Quotes

1  At the end of the exercises he read the telegram to the school.

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

2  In those days very few students were permitted to remain at the school during vacation.

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

3  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.

4  Once there, I knew that I could make myself so useful as a janitor that I could in some way get through the school year.

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

5  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.

6  During the day the greater part of the young men worked in the school's sawmill, and the young women worked in the laundry.

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

7  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.

8  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.

9  When I heard the school-roll called, I noticed that all of the children had at least two names, and some of them indulged in what seemed to me the extravagance of having three.

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

10  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.

11  Mackie, the lady principal, asking me to return to Hampton two weeks before the opening of the school, in order that I might assist her in cleaning the buildings and getting things in order for the new school year.

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

12  The greater part of their earnings was to be reserved in the school's treasury as a fund to be drawn on to pay their board when they had become students in the day-school, after they had spent one or two years in the night-school.

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

13  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.

14  As they went on describing the school, it seemed to me that it must be the greatest place on earth, and not even Heaven presented more attractions for me at that time than did the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, about which these men were talking.

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

15  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.

16  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
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.

17  The plan of the school was not modelled after that of any other institution then in existence, but every improvement was made under the magnificent leadership of General Armstrong solely with the view of meeting and helping the needs of our people as they presented themselves at the time.

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