As a student, would the level of education you would receive deter you from a school you had previously desired to attend? In Booker T. Washington’s plan proposed in his 1895 speech the Atlanta Compromise, he wanted to cut off education for African Americans after they attended vocational schools. This was in conflict with W. E. B. DuBois’ plan in the Talented Tenth, where he states his optimistic outlook on higher educations for African Americans. Many people are expected to plan their lives starting at a young, however many of them do not know how to take the opportunities provided for them, and use them to advance their careers. Dubois portrays this when he states, “How then shall the leaders of a struggling people be trained and the hands