This parent does not know that the difference between a good and a bad sculptor or painter is often based on knowledge or ignorance of anatomy and mechanical principles. ——
Education is important to the individual because it means development of the brain, development of capacity for production and increased chances of success.
Education is important to the State because it means not only
COMPETENT citizens, but MORAL citizens.
The animal in us yields to the influence of education. Knowledge and brutality are enemies. They do not dwell together.
The most important institutions in this country are the public schools—the gymnasiums of human brains. The most important citizens of the nation are the teachers.
The greatest criminals are the employers of child labor, because they deny education, cut down in childhood the citizen's chance of progress and success.
Work and vote for more and better public schools.
POVERTY IS THE FATHER OF VICE, CRIME AND FAILURE
These are days when men do their hardest work for money, when they scramble and struggle and strike each other down in the effort to reach wealth. And it is not possible to blame them. They are trying to escape from poverty, from a disaster worse than any prairie fire or other physical danger.
Dire poverty is the worst of curses. It combines every kind of suffering, physical, mental, moral, and in the end it means either death or degradation.