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Mr. Powell. With reference to your teachers, have 

 you had difficulty in getting teachers who were thoroughly 

 qualified and competent to give the peculiar instruction 

 which your students need? 



Dr. Washington. Yes ; that has been one of the most 

 difficult things with us, — to get teachers who understand 

 the practical part of the subject, and then at the same time 

 have the ability to teach it in the best way. We arc 

 gradually overcoming that difficulty, but it has been a 

 tremendous one. 



Question. Are your teachers all colored? 



Dr. Washington. All colored ; yes. 



Question. Do you receive considerable aid from the 

 American Missionary Association ? 



Dr. Washington. Something, but a very small portion 

 of our expenses come from that association. 



Dr. Learned. Would you advise a continuation of the 

 same quality of education there as you have to-day fifty 

 years hence, provided the colored population were the own- 

 ers of the entire real estate there, and provided, also, they 

 have the bank deposit that will average along with the 

 white population of the northern States, — would you con- 

 tinue the same practical line of education? 



Dr. Washington. I think the education should suit the 

 actual condition of the people. As the condition changes, 

 I think the education should change. I have spoken a good 

 deal of the industrial side of education. I do not mean to 

 limit education to that side ; but to the man who comes to 

 the point where he owns his farm and has a bank account, 

 it will be but a short way into the near future when he gives 

 his daughter or his son a purely literary or college edu- 

 cation. 



The Chair. This concludes the exercises of this meeting 

 of the Board. 



