According to the _Report on Negro Education_, few of the agricultural and mechanical schools maintained partly by the Federal land grants and partly by the States are really efficient.

A few state or city schools also give manual training.
About one-third of the private schools for negroes offer industrial courses, but much of this work is ineffective--either so slight as to be negligible or straight labor done in return for board and tuition and without regard to educational value.

Hampton and Tuskegee are known to do excellent work, and a few of the smaller schools are to be classed as efficient; but in the great majority of negro schools the old curriculum is still followed, and the students gladly submit to its exactness.

Why study something so plebeian as carpentry when one may study such scholarly subjects as Latin or Greek?
Most institutions for negroes desire to do work of college grade.

Some with not a single pupil above the elementary grades nevertheless proudly call themselves colleges.