At our second stop, the Tuskegee Institute, I learned a little more about George Washington Carver. What I learned was that Carver started exploring and testing things ever since he was young. Furthermore, I found it inspiring when I found out that George Washington Carver found uses for things like peanuts, just by testing and exploring different things. Learning that makes me inspired to test and explore different things just like Washington Carver and who knows? I may be just like him and find uses for different things.
Jessica, 8th grade:
As our day progressed, we visited the Tuskegee Institute
where we learned about George Washington Carver. In George W. Carver's
childhood, we discovered that he was eager to learn which led him to studying
art, agriculture, and several different careers. Even though a school offered
him no fame or fortune to teach, he still accepted the offer. For the remainder
of his years he passed his knowledge to other generations by teaching in the
institute. Outside of the building we
could see a statue of Booker T. Washington uncovering an African American. To us
this represented how he gave education to those that didn't have it so they
could have a wider variety of opportunities. One of my companions told me that
it could also be interpreted as the African Americans finally being seen as the
people that they were.
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