ed his Master's degree, he took the job offered to him by Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute as a teacher and chemist. The two great men were similar in almost every way in that they loved the Earth and everything it grows, believed everything must be earned by working, and had a deep desire to learn and teach. Their big difference lies in Carver being a very shy, quiet, and humble man, whereas Washington was an able bodied public speaker and leader who could administrate to working with many people. Carver liked to work alone, quietly. That is why the principal of Tuskegee gave Carver is personal sleeping room and a working room. One of Tuskegee's goals was to teach the South about crop rotation, and that cotton stripped the land of vital nutrient nitrogen. Carver helped teach how planting peanuts and sweet potatoes helped put nitrogen back into the soil. Carver tinkered in his laboratory and figured out how to make many items such as food, dyes and stains, rubber, metal polish, and rope. Carver was a very unconvention
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