Show you must go to school for your country and for the government by WILLIAM MANDREW chicago school superintendent it took us schoolmasters until the time of woodrow Woodro wilson wWilson to td vako up to io the idea that the old notion of education which had existed before the revolution should have been changed when t the h a american revolution came in why because the object of education educato I 1 on in tho the old european days was for the individual my advancement and etwas it waa for the higher born wo we linked together two words gentleman and scholar and what was a gentleman if one came inlow in how could you recognize him by the lace ideo collar around his neck by the lace on his sleeves by his long hair and ana this costume meant I 1 cannot sweat I 1 am a gentleman I 1 do no work with my hands and that built up an education that was suited for that kind of costume a white collar white cuff deduc education aaion which was for those of superior rank in my boyhood days it was considered a privilege to go to school and if you did not behave you could bo be suspended thon then by degrees wo we put in the compulsory education law which means now it is a duty for you to go to school you must go to school what for for yourself no but for your country and the government you ask a boyas boy as ho he sits on the front seat scat what he is going to school for and the tho answer is not in order that tha lie he may learn in order that ho he may got get ahead but ho he is going to school in order that lie may serve his country for it is ia his country that is paying for his education |