Review: Inspirational!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2013
This is a book everyone should take the time to read.  Booker T Washington sets a precedent for every human being to learn to treasure education and realise how blessed we are if we have access to it. However, he also saw the value of teaching students life skills that would enable them to find work throughout their lives and to make themselves indispensable in their communities.  His school was built by the generosity of the community and his unwavering faith in God and people of all races and students today would be hard pressed to believe that his students had to huddle round a fire in their boarding lodges sharing one blanket during a cold winter due to lack of finances. Even harder to believe this suffering didn't deter them from their goal - to learn to read and write and master some form of trade.