Whatever intrinsic value accrues by reason of being alive, even greater value is derived by what one can do.
These thoughts were emblazoned on me, yesterday, reading CHARACTER BUILDING by Booker T. Washington.
The same thoughts have revisited me today, from reading that the number 1 rated recruit in the nation, Michael Porter, Jr., had decided to return home to the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he had grown up as a child , to play basketball for its newly hired coach, Cuonzo Martin.
Intrinsic value, yes! But kinetic value, capable, trained, energy, is greater than inertia in man and things. The "Wizard of Tuskegee" said in 1898, to his student body, following a visit by President William McKinley to the Tuskegee Institute, founded in 1881:
"Just in proportion as we learn to execute something, to put our education into tangible form...in just the same proportion will we find ourselves of value as individuals and as a race. Those people who came here to visit us knew perfectly well that we could commit to memory certain lines of poetry, they knew we were able to solve problems in algebra and geometry, they understood that we could learn certain rules in chemistry and agriculture; but what interested them most was to see us put into visible form the results of our education. Just in proportion as an individual is able for do that, he is of value to the world. That is the object the work we are trying to do here. We are trying to turn out men and women who are able to do something the world wants done. Just in proportion as you can comply with that demand you will find that there is a place for you there is going to be standing room. By the training we are giving you here we are preparing you for a place in the world. We are going to train you so that when you get to that place, if you fail in it, the failure will not be our fault....
"You will find it true, not only in this country but in other countries, that the demand will be more and more for people who can do something. Just in proportion as we can as a race, get the reputation of which I spoke a few days ago, you will find there will be places for you. Regardless of color or condition, the world is going to give the places of trust and remuneration to the men and women who can do a certain thing as well as anybody else or better. This is the whole problem. Shall we prepare ourselves to do something as well as anybody else or better? Just in proportion as we do this , you will find that nothing under the sun will keep us back."
Chapter 13. "Education that Educates"
Friday, March 24, 2017
EDUCATION THAT EDUCATES
Whatever intrinsic value accrues by reason of being alive, even greater value is derived by what one can do.
These thoughts were emblazoned on me, yesterday, reading CHARACTER BUILDING by Booker T. Washington.
The same thoughts have revisited me today, from reading that the number 1 rated recruit in the nation, Michael Porter, Jr., had decided to return home to the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he had grown up as a child , to play basketball for its newly hired coach, Cuonzo Martin.
Intrinsic value, yes! But kinetic value, capable, trained, energy, is greater than inertia in man and things. The "Wizard of Tuskegee" said in 1898, to his student body, following a visit by President William McKinley to the Tuskegee Institute, founded in 1881:
"Just in proportion as we learn to execute something, to put our education into tangible form...in just the same proportion will we find ourselves of value as individuals and as a race. Those people who came here to visit us knew perfectly well that we could commit to memory certain lines of poetry, they knew we were able to solve problems in algebra and geometry, they understood that we could learn certain rules in chemistry and agriculture; but what interested them most was to see us put into visible form the results of our education. Just in proportion as an individual is able for do that, he is of value to the world. That is the object the work we are trying to do here. We are trying to turn out men and women who are able to do something the world wants done. Just in proportion as you can comply with that demand you will find that there is a place for you there is going to be standing room. By the training we are giving you here we are preparing you for a place in the world. We are going to train you so that when you get to that place, if you fail in it, the failure will not be our fault....
"You will find it true, not only in this country but in other countries, that the demand will be more and more for people who can do something. Just in proportion as we can as a race, get the reputation of which I spoke a few days ago, you will find there will be places for you. Regardless of color or condition, the world is going to give the places of trust and remuneration to the men and women who can do a certain thing as well as anybody else or better. This is the whole problem. Shall we prepare ourselves to do something as well as anybody else or better? Just in proportion as we do this , you will find that nothing under the sun will keep us back."
Chapter 13. "Education that Educates"
