Carter
Woodson, a Black historian and educator, The Mis-education
of the Negro (1933)
"Neither
this inadequately supported [industrial education] school system nor the
struggling higher institutions of a classical order established about the same
time . . . connected the Negroes very closely with life as it was. These
institutions were concerned rather with life as they hoped to make it. When the
Negro found himself deprived of influence in politics, therefore, and at the
same time unprepared to participate in the higher functions in the industrial
development which this country began to undergo, it soon became evident to him
that he was losing ground in the basic things of life. He was spending his time
studying about the things which had been or might be, but he was learning
little to help him to do better the tasks at hand."