TRAINING in Classic Quotes

1  Now I was able to ride the whole distance in the train.

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

2  This man was riding in the part of the train set aside for the coloured passengers.

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

3  My mother, of course, had little time in which to give attention to the training of her children during the day.

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

4  I have so trained myself that I can lie down for a nap of fifteen or twenty minutes, and get up refreshed in body and mind.

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

5  The school is strictly undenominational, but it is thoroughly Christian, and the spiritual training of the students is not neglected.

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

6  There are in constant operation at the school, in connection with thorough academic and religious training, thirty industrial departments.

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

7  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.

8  Our next effort was in the direction of increasing the cultivation of the land, so as to secure some return from it, and at the same time give the students training in agriculture.

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

9  Several of the teachers, however, who had been trained in the industries at Hampton, volunteered their services, and in some way we succeeded in getting a third kiln ready for burning.

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

10  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.

11  I have always felt that Mr. Adams, in a large degree, derived his unusual power of mind from the training given his hands in the process of mastering well three trades during the days of slavery.

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

12  In addition to the agricultural training which we give to young men, and the training given to our girls in all the usual domestic employments, we now train a number of girls in agriculture each year.

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

13  Through Mrs. Hemenway's kindness and generosity, Miss Davidson, after graduating at Hampton, received an opportunity to complete a two years' course of training at the Massachusetts State Normal School at Framingham.

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

14  He came to deliver an address at the formal opening of the Slater-Armstrong Agricultural Building, our first large building to be used for the purpose of giving training to our students in agriculture and kindred branches.

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

15  In addition to going to school, where he studies books and has manual training, he regularly spends a portion of his time in the office of our resident physician, and has already learned to do many of the duties which pertain to a doctor's office.

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

16  The students were making progress in learning books and in developing their minds; but it became apparent at once that, if we were to make any permanent impression upon those who had come to us for training we must do something besides teach them mere books.

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

17  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.