Compared the statement of Booker T. Washington with W.E.B. Du Bois, people are more supportive W.E.B. Du Bois’ point now. This choice does not mean Washington’s view is wrong thinking yet it is not suitable the social development of today. Every thought’s origin is reasonable and satisfies the social environment as well as people’s requirements so Washington’s opinion is not an example. In the era of Washington, civil war finished and the whole American society existed two thoughts trends that are Gospel of Wealth and Social Darwinism, which made Washington advocated blacks should accept vocation education in order to teach them skills to improve their economical level and encouraged them through their individual effector—“self-made men” to
