I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.


The Talented Tenth, published as the second chapter of The Negro Problem, a collection of articles by African Americans (New York: James Pott and Company, 1903)

W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.