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Loading content ... NUMBER 135 ATLANTA, GEORGIA MARCH/1903
Suggestions It is sometimes said that a Negro is not a white man
with a black skin and that therefore he should not be educated
like a white man. Has any one ever defined precisely what this
means? Just what difference should be made in teaching a Negro
child to read and teaching a white child? In what way should one
be taught to write differently from the other? How should each
be instructed in addition, subtraction, multiplication and
division? Do the principles of grammar and the facts of
geography, science and history mean one thing to the mind of the
Negro youth and another to the mind of the white? Does one use a
different set of muscles from the other in driving a nail or
planing a board? How should Caesar, Virgil, and Homer be taught
to a Negro student and how to a white student? Or should they
never be taught to Negro students at all? Do those who say that
a Negro is not a white man