Importance Of Education (Up From Slavery) ?

Importance of Education (Up from Slavery)

Education was not a thing apart from life, not a system or a philosophy, it was direct teaching on how to live and work. Booker's objective in setting up Tuskegee Institute stemmed from the fact that he was always willing to teach anyone who wanted to learn. He was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else. During the time he was a student at Hampton, his older brother, John, not only assisted him all that he could, but worked all of the time in the coal-mines to support the family. He willingly neglected his own education so that he might help Booker. It was Booker's earnest wish to him his brother to prepare to enter Hampton and to save money to assist him in his expenses there. Therefore, these were the objectives which propelled him towards establishing Tuskegee and in three years when his brother finished the course at Hampton, the brothers combined their efforts and savings to send their adopted brother James to Hampton. They succeeded in doing this and later on, the brother became the postmaster at Tuskegee Institute.