# My larger education

Author: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73923

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=My+larger+education+Washington&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It has been my fortune to be associated all my life with a problem—a hard, perplexing, but important problem. There was a time when I looked upon this fact as a great misfortune. It seemed to me a great hardship that I was born poor, and it seemed an even greater hardship that I should have been born a Negro. I did not like to admit, even to myself, that I felt this way about the matter, because it seemed to me an indication of weakness and cowardice for any man to complain about the condition he was born to. Later I came to the conclusion that it was not only weak and cowardly, but that it was a mistake to think of the matter in the way in which I had done. I came to see that, along with...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-larger-education-73923/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-larger-education-73923/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-larger-education-73923/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-larger-education-73923/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-larger-education-73923/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-larger-education-73923/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-larger-education-73923/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-larger-education-73923/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-larger-education-73923/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-larger-education-73923/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-larger-education-73923/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-larger-education-73923/chapters/1/index.md)