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Trustees of Freedmans school Building are generally ignorant or imperfectly education persons who at once attempt to control teachers actions, are constantly changing teachers and thwarting them. I am therefore opposed to the system of assisting the freedpeople to build. A teacher should be independent of the trammels of ignorance  In other words should be free to locate  To rent his or her own school house. The scholars then are sent to the teacher and not the latter to the scholars. Besides buildings are easily and often destroyed and the investment lost. A good corps of teachers selected and maintained by the Bureau would, in my opinion meet the wants of the colored people in this respect.