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This reads as a defense of lived contact over formal instruction. It can be taken to mean that watching and listening to accomplished people teaches judgment, character, and scale in a way books alone cannot, and it lands when someone realizes a mentor has changed them more than any textbook could.
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Books by Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery
2000
My larger education
1900
The Future of the American Negro
1969