2.) When Ms. Johnson comes over to visit, she mentions a quote from Booker T. Washington that says, "Education has spoiled many a good plow hand." Washington was a leader of the Black community who believed that newly-freed enslaved people and other Black Americans should focus primarily on working to solidify their lives and not waste time on education. They also often think that those who are educated--specifically educated Black people--thought they were better than, as stated by Ms. Johnson and her disapproval of Beneatha’s attitude. Focusing on work is what many people--both Black and white--thought should be the primary goal of the Black community, but is that a productive mindset? Should Beneatha have given up her very big (and very expensive) dreams to help the family financially instead? Should the primary focus of a population who greatly struggles socially and financially already (specifically at this time of legal discrimination and segregation) be to forget about edu