r is to direct this singing, flowing, moving spirit of the hive
into useful channels.

Education is simply the encouragement of right habits--the fixing of
good habits until they become a part of one's nature, and are exercised
automatically.

The man who is industrious by habit is the only man who wins. The man
who is not industrious except when driven to it, or when it occurs to
him, accomplishes little.

Man gets his happiness by doing: and work to a slave is always
distasteful. The power of mimicry and imitation is omitted--the owner
does not work--the strong man does not work. Ergo--to grow strong means
to cease work. To be strong means to be free--to be free means no work!

It has been a frightfully bad education that the Negro has had--work
distasteful, and work disgraceful! And the slave-owner suffered most of
all, for he came to regard work as debasing.

And now a Negro is teaching the Negro that work is beautiful--that work
is a privilege--that only through willing service can he ever win his
freedom. Architecture is fixed ecstasy, inspired always by a strong man
who gives a feeling of security. Athens was an ecstasy in marble.

Tuskegee is an ecstasy in brick and mortar.

Don't talk about the education of the Negro! The experiment has really
never been tried, except spasmodically, of educating either the whites
or the blacks in the South--or elsewhere.

A Negro is laying hold upon the natural ecstasy of the Negro, and
directing it into channels of usefulness and excellence. Can you
foretell where this will end--this formation of habits of industry,
sobriety and continued, persistent effort towards the right?

Booker Washington, child of a despised race, has done and is doing what
the combined pedagogic and priestly wisdom of ages has failed to do. He
is the Moses who by his example is leading the children of his former
oppressors out into the light of social, mental, moral and economic
freedom.

I am familiar in detail with every criticism brought against Tuskegee.
On examination these criticisms all reduce themselves down to three:

1. A vast sum of money has been collected by Booker Washington for his
own aggrandizement and benefit.

2. Tuskegee is a show-place where all the really good work is done by
picked men from the North.

3. Booker Washington is a tyrant, a dictator and an egotist.

If I were counsel for Tuskegee--as I am not--I would follow the example
of the worthy accusers, and s