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  • Booker T. Washington’s Racial Compromise?

    Booker T. Washington’s Racial Compromise?0

    I first read Up from Slavery ten years ago and was quickly surprised that it wasn’t required reading for every educator, that is, until I read the critics. In his autobiography, Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) leaves us an equal bounty of moral wisdom and caution that all began with his dream to learn. Education and merit are

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  • Booker T. Washington’s 3 Tips for Today’s Schools

    Booker T. Washington’s 3 Tips for Today’s Schools0

    Although it hasn’t been discussed very much this election cycle, it’s a well-known fact that education in the United States is in a sorry state. Something must be done… but what? That same question was likely in Booker T. Washington’s (1856-1915) mind as he struggled to educate and advance the position of freed black slaves

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  • Booker T. Washington’s Rule for Living

    Booker T. Washington’s Rule for Living0

    In an 1895 speech, Booker T. Washington shared this parable about a ship lost in saltwater seas and dangerously out of drinking water. Suddenly, the lost ship sees another friendly vessel: From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal: ‘Water, water. We die of thirst.’ The answer from the friendly vessel at

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  • Book Learning Is Not Enough

    Book Learning Is Not Enough1

    In his preface to The Closing of the American Mind, professor Allan Bloom describes the main goal of education as a mission to help students answer the question, “What is man?” As Bloom goes on to note, many individuals believe that the answer to this question is found in extensive book learning. But Bloom believes

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  • Book BURNERS and Book BANNERS are Cut from the Same Cloth

    Book BURNERS and Book BANNERS are Cut from the Same Cloth0

    Book-burning serves as a powerful symbol of the dangers of totalitarianism and ideological intolerance. It conjures up images of Nazis throwing books deemed “un-German” on bonfires. It inspired authors of dystopian novels, such as George Orwell and Ray Bradbury, to warn of the destruction of freedom which the burning of books symbolizes and represents.  Yet

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  • Book Bans? Free Speech? The Hypocrisy of PEN America

    Book Bans? Free Speech? The Hypocrisy of PEN America2

    Founded in 1922, PEN America has long been considered a bastion of free expression in the United States. The organization professes to hold tight to the virtue of writers freely expressing themselves, without the fear of censorship: PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United

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