Show Lo i OGIE I BEVERLY EVERLY HILLS Say Say any of ot you that have kids in schools either grammer high or College It Il dont don't make any difference C but can any of ot NO 2 rot os f c iii you parents got Tott head or tail taU of what they are 1 dol doing n g w what hat r o-r r p 1 they are taking 41 what they are learning This modern education education tion gag gas has sure got me 6 licked I cant tell teU from talking talking talk talk- ing to em what Its Us all an about All the kids I know either mine or none nono of em can write so 80 you can can read It none nona of ot em can enn spell so you can read It cant figure and dont know geography but they are aro always taking some of ot the things s political science International relations drama buck dancing latin greek art Oh Lord the things they go In for runs on by the hour But its as I sa say not nol only our brood but none nono of ot om em that I have seen can write spell figure or ortell ortell ortell tell you what bounds Corea Everybody Everybody Every Every- body has swimming pools but nobody nobody no no- body has got a plain old geography Gymnasiums to tho the right of ot you and tennis courts to tho the left of ot you but not a n. spoiling spelling book In a acar acar acar car load of schools Then they got another gag they call Credits If It you do anything thirty minutes twice a n. week why you get some certain Credit Maby Its lamp shade tinting maby Its singing mab maby its a thing they call caU Music Appreciation that used to drive my cowboy son Jim pretty near Nuts He never could see Leo how that woul aid you to rope rope- a calf caIr They give out these things at schools for anything that anyone anyone any allY one can think of Some of ot em get more Credits than for others If Ifa Ifa Ifa a thing ia particularly useless why It gives you more moru credits Thoro Thorn Thorois is none nono at all aU for tho the things that we thought cons constituted titu ted School You could write read spell figure and give the tho capitol of at Rhodo Island and they give gi you OU a Credit in a year But you tell where a a. Latin word was originally located and how its been manhandled and down downto to the present day and say they will wiH claim aim that you yon have the nucleus of ot a Thesis and you OU are liable Hable to get a n horde of oC Credits Now who cares about the word or what it has contributed ted to tho the of Nations that never minds to them Tho The smarter a n nation gets the themore themore themore more wars ware it has The dUI dumb b ones are too smart to fight Our schools teach us what tho the other fellow knows but It dont dent teach us anything any any- thing new for tor Everybody dY is 13 learning just one thing not because because because be be- cause they will know more but because because be bo- cause they have been taught that they wont have to work if it they are aree e educated Well we got so 60 many educated now that there Is not enough jobs for tor educated people Most 1 of or our work Is skilled and requires requires requires re re- re- re quires practice and not education But none o of these big bis sors will wUl come out and tell teU you that our education might be bo lacking lacking lack lack- ing that It might be shortened that It might be improved They know as it is now that its a n. I Racket and they are in on it You couldn't get mo ma to ro admit that making movies was the bunk either None of ot us will talka talk a against our own graft We aU got us our Rackets nowadays Thero is s Just about as much Hooey In everything as there thero is merit The live with less effort and less worry Trying to live Past our parents par eats and not Up to Em is one I of ot our drawbacks draw backs back the old 1 tnt Chinese got the tho right idea along that lint line but ever once in r awhile some fellow fel tel d dand low does pop up and d declare e c a r 0 himself L Look 0 0 k kat at that college g 4 pro professor t e s s 0 r in Chicago sity atty Ho He said our 1 learning car n I n g system was all haywire He Ho is a smart young fellow that guy I heard beard him speak at a dinner din ner nor In Chicago during the Conven Conven- tion Ho He knew a n whole lot more than just where a a. lot Jot of ot words Come From This education Is Just like everything else clao You gotto gotto got gotto to Judge it by results Hero Horo weare weare we wo are aro better hetter educated according to educational methods than we ever were And wo we are worse off oft than wo we ever were so Its not living up to its Billing BlUing Its Its not worth tho the price Its costing us moro more than its orth Borth They got to devise deviso someway someway some sonic way of oC giving more moro t for r the iho mone money All An ho Is getting out with now Is Credits and nobody on the outside out out- side sido is cashing om em D p 1932 1911 J |