The modern school without systematic lectures turns out
many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left
their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten. . .
--Arthur Schomburg
The earliest instruction was imparted orally, a system
still extant in Africa and the Orient. lt trains the mind to listen.
--Arthur Schomburg
The fable of Aesop, the cherished and enjoyable book of
our youth, was originally related as folk- lore by a Negro from Aethiopia to the
Greeks, who in turn published them.
--Arthur Schomburg
The American Negro must remake his past in order to make
his future . . . History must restore what slavery took away.
--Arthur Schomburg
We need the historian and philosopher to give us with
trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with
phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to
them just as blood is thicker than water.
--Arthur Schomburg