The Education of Black People
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ISBN: 1-58367-043-2 (pbk) 224 pages The Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906–1960 (New Edition) by W.E.B. Du Bois, edited by Herbert Aptheker Undoubtedly the most influential black intellectual of the twentieth century and one of America’s finest historians, W.E.B. Du Bois knew that the liberation of African Americans required liberal education and not vocational training. He saw education as a process of teaching certain timeless values: moderation, an avoidance of luxury, a concern for courtesy, a capacity to endure, a nurturing love for beauty. At the same time, Du Bois saw education as fundamentally subversive. This was as much a function of the well-established role of education — from Plato forward — as the realities of the social order under which he lived. He insistently calls for great energy and initiative; for African Americans controlling their own lives, and for continued experimentation and innovation, while keeping education’s fundamentally radical nature in view.