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CHAPTER TEN - A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw

Summary

From the beginning, Booker was determined not only to teach the value of agricultural and domestic work, but also to have the students erect their own buildings. He knew mistakes would be made, but he insisted on that precept as a way to teach a valuable lesson to his students. The result was a sense of pride among the students who built the buildings on the campus. When a student was tempted to mark up or deface the buildings in any way, another would often stop him with the words, “Don’t do that. That is our building. I helped put it up.” Booker’s most trying question was brick making. There was no brickyard in town and the making of their own bricks was hard, dirty work. It was difficult to get students to help and some actually left the school because of.......

Notes

The making of the bricks to build their buildings is a symbol of the determination Booker carried to lift his people up and make them......

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