Determination
Illustration★★★★Realizing the difficulties which his students faced, General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute, the first school for Negroes to be organized after the Civil War, told: them: “Once there was a woodchuck. Now, all of you know that woodchucks can’t climb trees. But one day this woodchuck was chased by a dog. He ran as fast as his short legs could carry him across the fields until he came to a tree. ‘If I can only get up that tree,’ he said to himself, ‘I’ll be safe.’ He had to get up there, so he did. Overcoming handicaps is a matter of doing what often seems impossible.”
Norris L. Trsserts.
The point
General Armstrong tells students about a woodchuck that climbed a tree to escape a dog despite its nature, teaching that overcoming handicaps is doing what seems impossible.