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Published July 12, 2008 06:59 pm - DIAMOND, Mo. — Maurice Tate, of Springfield, urged people to challenge their children to learn early and adopt the practices of George Washington Carver.
Professor urges parents to challenge kids to learn
By Debbie Robinson
news@joplinglobe.com
DIAMOND, Mo. — Maurice Tate, of Springfield, urged people to challenge their children to learn early and adopt the practices of George Washington Carver.
Tate, a minister and professor of African-American Studies at Missouri State University, was the guest speaker at the 65th annual Carver Day at George Washington Carver National Monument near Diamond.
Tate said Carver was a “great teacher” because he challenged his students.
Tate reviewed Carver’s life from a boy born into slavery who rose to develop hundreds of uses for peanuts, horticulture plants and new land-use practices as well as painting with natural dyes.
Carver received numerous degrees and went on to teach at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Tate said he believed Carver’s greatest contribution was his work in the South with agriculture.
“He totally transformed the entire South’s agricultural industry,” Tate said. “He did it through crop rotation.”
Tate referred to Carver as a “genius.”
“He said no one should leave this earth without leaving something behind,” Tate said.
Although Carver invented many things, he held only three patents — all for dyes, Tate said.
“He (Carver) said he didn’t want any more patents,” Tate said.
Carver said: “All the other inventions, I’m going to give them to you, because God gave me the knowledge to create these things, and it’s only proper to give it back to you.”
An informational table outside on the lush grounds featured various flowers and leaves for use by the children to create pictures using the flowers as dye.
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