STUDENTS in Classic Quotes

1  This included the time that I spent as a student at Hampton and as a teacher in West Virginia.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

2  The cost of tuition, which was fifty dollars a year for each student, we had to secure then, as now, wherever we could.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.

3  No student, I think, who has had the opportunity of doing this could go out into the world and content himself with the poorest grades.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

4  During the time I was a student at Washington the city was crowded with coloured people, many of whom had recently come from the South.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

5  In this time forty buildings, counting small and large, have been built, and all except four are almost wholly the product of student labour.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

6  During the now nineteen years' existence of the Tuskegee school, the plan of having the buildings erected by student labour has been adhered to.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

7  At another time I remember that I made it known in chapel, one night, that a very poor student was suffering from cold, because he needed a coat.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.

8  At Hampton the student was constantly making the effort through the industries to help himself, and that very effort was of immense value in character-building.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

9  During the time that I was a student at Hampton my older brother, John, not only assisted me all that he could, but worked all of the time in the coal-mines in order to support the family.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

10  As soon as it became known that General Armstrong would be pleased if some of the older students would live in the tents during the winter, nearly every student in school volunteered to go.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

11  By this time it had gotten to be pretty well advertised throughout the state that every student who came to Tuskegee, no matter what his financial ability might be, must learn some industry.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

12  Not a few times, when a new student has been led into the temptation of marring the looks of some building by leadpencil marks or by the cuts of a jack-knife, I have heard an old student remind him: "Don't do that."

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

13  Students had begun coming from quite a distance, and in such increasing numbers that we felt more and more that we were merely skimming over the surface, in that we were not getting hold of the students in their home life.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

14  I had to summon a good deal of courage to take a student who had been studying cube root and "banking and discount," and explain to him that the wisest thing for him to do first was thoroughly master the multiplication table.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

15  For some time, while a student at Hampton, I possessed but a single pair of socks, but when I had worn these till they became soiled, I would wash them at night and hang them by the fire to dry, so that I might wear them again the next morning.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

16  Having been so long without proper food, a bath, and a change of clothing, I did not, of course, make a very favourable impression upon her, and I could see at once that there were doubts in her mind about the wisdom of admitting me as a student.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

17  In regard to this general belief and these statements, I can say that during the nineteen years of my experience at Tuskegee I never, either by word or act, have been treated with disrespect by any student or officer connected with the institution.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.