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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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W. E. B. Du Bois
Age: 95 †
Born: 1868
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: August 27
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Great Barrington
Massachusetts
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
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