MY LARGER EDUCATION [Illustration: A NEW PORTRAIT OF MR. WASHINGTON “When I had something to say about the white people I said it to the white people; when I had something to say about coloured people I said it to coloured people.” ] MY LARGER EDUCATION BEING CHAPTERS FROM MY EXPERIENCE BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON _Author of “Up From Slavery,” “The Story of the Negro,” “Character Building,” etc._ ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS [Illustration: [Logo]] GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1911 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN COPYRIGHT, 1910, 1911, DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Learning from Men and Things 3 II. Building a School Around a Problem 21 III. Some Exceptional Men, and What I Have Learned from Them 51 IV. My Experience with Reporters and Newspapers 81 V. The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob 102 VI. A Commencement Oration on Cabbages 128 VII. Colonel Roosevelt and What I Have Learned from Him 158 VIII. My Educational Campaigns Through the South and What They Taught Me 183 IX. What I Have Learned from Black Men 205 X. Meeting High and Low in Europe 239 XI. What I Learned About Education in Denmark 262 XII. The Mistakes and the Future of Negro Education 287 ILLUSTRATIONS A new portrait of Mr. Washington _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE A partial view of Hampton Institute 10 The site of Tuskegee Institute when it was first bought 22 The house in Malden, W. Va., in which Mr. Washington lived when he began teaching 46 Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback, of Louisiana 104 Blanche K. Bruce, of Mississippi 104 Major John R. Lynch, U. S. A. 104 Charles Banks 104