work on projects.Read my section again to refresh my memory.Notes:William Torrey Harris was an educational reformer.He saw public schools as an oppurtunity to move all classes of people into a civilized life.Harris promoted the idea of great uducators in 1889-1906 as a U.S. commisioner of education.Harris promoted Horace Mann and John Dewey.Confusing things in this section:Why did College enrollments quadruple from 1880-1920?how or why did Booker T. Washington assume that racial descrimination would end when blacks learned usefull labor skills.If Booker was born enslaved how did he get such a good education?
College numbers quadrupled during that time for numerous reason. First, there were more of them available for people to attend, some specifically for women and African-Americans. Two, there were simply more people in our country that wanted to go. Our population was growing very quickly. Three, our public education system was set up in the late 1800's as well so as people graduated high school, it would be common sense for more people to go on to college.
In regards to Booker T. Washington's statement. He believed the reason many people were against African American equality was the fact that they really weren't trained in anything. Once they were trained, they could add to the success of our country and then be more accepted in society.
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College numbers quadrupled during that time for numerous reason. First, there were more of them available for people to attend, some specifically for women and African-Americans. Two, there were simply more people in our country that wanted to go. Our population was growing very quickly. Three, our public education system was set up in the late 1800's as well so as people graduated high school, it would be common sense for more people to go on to college.
In regards to Booker T. Washington's statement. He believed the reason many people were against African American equality was the fact that they really weren't trained in anything. Once they were trained, they could add to the success of our country and then be more accepted in society.
In regards to your third question, read up on Washington here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington