I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
About this quote
- Attributed to
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Source
- The Talented Tenth, published as the second chapter of The Negro Problem, a collection of articles by African Americans (New York: James Pott and Company, 1903)
- Culture / tradition
- African American
- Attribution status
- ✓ Verified source
- Verification
- Primary reference
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