How to Love Labor for Its Own Sake

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At Hampton for the first time I learned what education was expected to do for an individual. At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfish-ish My first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy. To love labor For its own sake like the work itself is good never mind the paycheck that you're getting just the work itself Yeah, it's nice way of saying he has little patience for people. We're not like that. She's the freaking head of the school she's in there cleaning windows respect. He says this book is about hard work and the value of hard work

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)^[1] was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite.^[2] Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.