 Negro education, Woodson charged, clung to a defunct “machine method” based on the misguided assumption that “education is merely a process of imparting information.” it failed to inspire black students and “did not bring their minds into harmony with life as they must face it.” theories of Negro inferiority were “drilled” into black pupils in virtually every classroom they entered.And the more education blacks received, the more “estranged from the masses” they became.”

The Journal of Black Studies on Woodson himself said, "Carter G. Woodson believed that education was much more than the trans-feral of knowledge from teacher to student