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布克·T·华盛顿：力争上游·摘录 23
布克·T·华盛顿《力争上游》· Up from Slavery · 领导
This experience of a whole race beginning to go to school for the first time, presents one of the most interesting studies that has ever occurred in connection with the development of any race. Few people who were not right in the midst of the scenes can form any exact idea of the intense desire which the people of my race showed for an education. As I have stated, it was a whole race trying to go to school. Few were too young, and none too old, to make the attempt to learn. As fast as any kind of teachers could be secured, not only were day-schools filled, but night-schools as well. The great ambition of the older people was to try to learn to read the Bible before they died. With this end in view men and women who were fifty or seventy-five years old would often be found in the night-school. Some day-schools were formed soon after freedom, but the principal book studied in the Sunday-school was the spelling-book. Day-school, night-school, Sunday-school, were always crowded, and often many had to be turned away for want of room.
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定位：Excerpt 23 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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华盛顿描述，整个种族第一次有机会上学，是种族发展史上极罕见的现象。外人很难想象黑人对教育的渴望有多强烈：男女老少都去尝试，日校夜校一有老师就满员。老人最大的心愿是死前能读《圣经》，所以五十甚至七十五岁的人常出现在夜校。主日学主要学拼写课本。日校、夜校、主日学都挤满人，常因没地方而把许多人拒之门外。这告诉我们：当学习机会突然开放，人们会爆发出巨大热情。今天，如果你有学习机会，别浪费；如果你能提供机会，尽量降低门槛，让最想学的人进得来。
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出自《超越奴役》，描述美国内战后解放的黑人群体首次大规模接受教育的热潮。
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你身边有没有想学却因门槛被挡在外的人，你能帮他们降低哪一道门槛？
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