PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY
To the Young People of Oakland, Cal.
May 24, 1901
“There is nothing better for the United States than Educated Citizenship; and, my young friends, there never was a time in all our history when knowledge was so essential to success as now. Everything requires knowledge. What we want of the young people now is exact knowledge. You want to know whatever you undertake to do a little better than anybody else. And if you will do that, then there is nothing that is not within your reach.
And what you want besides education is Character—Character! There is nothing that will serve a young man or an old man so well as good character. And did you ever think that it is just as easy to form a good habit as it is to form a bad one; and it is just as hard to break a good habit as it is to break a bad one? So get the good ones and keep them. With Education and Character you will not only achieve individual success, but you will contribute largely to the progress of your country.”
BRIEF MEMORY GEMS AND PROVERBS.
FIRST AND SECOND GRADES.
If at first you don’t succeed,
Try, try again.
Be kind and be gentle
To those who are old,