Up From Slavery
Booker demands cleanliness from his students. What one item does he insist everyone have?
Chapter 11
Chapter 11
Washington insisted that every student use a tooth-brush, explaining the civilizing influence of such a device: "I have noticed that, if we can get a student to the point where, when the first or second tooth-brush disappears, he of his own motion buys another, I have not been disappointed in the future of that individual" (66).
Up From Slavery