History shows, then, that as a result of these unusual forces in the education of the Negro he easily learns to follow the line of least resistance rather than battle against odds for what real history has shown to be the right course.  A mind that remains in the present atmosphere never undergoes sufficient development to experience what is commonly known as thinking.  No Negro thus submerged in the ghetto, then, will have a clear conception of the present status of the race or sufficient foresight to plan for the future; and he drifts so far toward compromise that he loses moral courage.  The education of the Negro, then becomes a perfect device for control from without.

In this untoward situation the Negro finds himself at the close of the third generation from Emancipation.  He has been educated in the sense that persons directed a certain way are more easily controlled, or as Ovid remarked, "In time the bull is brought to bear the yoke."  The Negro in this state continues as a child.  

Carter G. Woodson

(1933)