Show ILL ROGERS BEVERLY say any ol of you that have hare kids in schools elilion grammar high or college it donk make any once but can any f 1 I of you parents got us head bead or tall of what they aro dah ing what they aro aw CUT taking what they aro are learning learn lne this t modern education gag gaff has suro sure got mo me licked I 1 cant tell from rom talking to orn cm what its all about all tho the kids I 1 know olther or nono of era em can caa i ite so you can road read it nono none of emi can spell so you can read it cant Qs ure lire ai and id dont know geography but thoy they aro are always taking some of thoi thai darn dost dest things political science international ter national ro relations lations drama buck dancing latin latan greek art olt oh lord tho the things thy go in tor for runs on by tho the hour but its as I 1 may cay not only our brood but none of 0 ent em that I 1 have seen can write spoil figure or tell you what bounds coroa corea everybody has swimming pools but nobody has got a plain old geography gymnasiums to tho the right of you and tonnis tennis courts to tho the loft left of you but not nob a spelling book in a car load of sc hoole then they got another gag thoy they call i credits it you do a anything thirty minutes twice a week why you got some certain credit maby its lamp 1 shade tinting maby its singing blueing maby its a thing they call music appreciation clario cia tion that used to drive my cow boy sonjie son alm pretty near nuts ile he i nover never could see sea how that would aid you to rope a calf they give out those these things at schools for anything 1 that hat anyone can think of some of em cm you 9 get at moro more credits than tor for others it a thing Is use less why it gives you more credits there Is nono none at all tor for the things that wo we thought constituted sell school 0 ol 01 you could write road spell figure and give the capitol of rhode Rhodo island and give you a credit tn in a year but you tell where a latin word was originally lo located caled and how ite been manhandled man handled and downto down to the present da dagand yand say eay they will claim that you yon have the nucleus of a thesis and you are liable to got get a horde of credits now who cares carea about the word or what it has contributed to the welfare of at nations that never minds to them you have got yourself tho the family treo free of a word course you cant go out and got ajob a job on it but these old value it mighty hig highly itly somo some of these days they aro are going to remove so much of that bunk and hooey and the thousands of things that the tho schools rich have become clogged up with and we will find that we can educato educate our broods for about liia hiie tenth the price and learn em cm some thing thoy they might accidentally use after they escaped the smarter a nation gets the more wars it has haa tho the dumb ones are too smart to fight our schools teach us i what tho the other othar follow knows but it dont teach us anything new for our I 1 solve selva everybody Is learning just one thing not because they will know more but because hey havo have been taught that they wont havo have to work it if they are educated well we got so i i many educated now that there to Is not enough jobs tor for educated people most moat ot of our work Is skilled and requires practice and not education but none of these big will come out and toll you that our education amigh be lacking that it might bo be shortened that it might be improved they know na as it la Is now tant tta its a racket and they are in on it you could coul dent got me to admit that making movies was the bunk either none of us will talk against our ow own n graft wo we all got cot us our rackets nowadays thero there Is just about as much hooey in everything as there la Is merit the he athern live with less e efort and less worry trying to live past our oar parents and not up to em la Is one of our draw drawbacks bicks tho the old chinese got the ph now right idea along EMY that line but ever once lit in awhile some fellow does pop up aud and declare himself him solf look at that college professor in chicago university ile ho said our learning system was all haywire ile ha in ie a smart young tollow follow that guy I 1 heard him speak at a dinner in chicago during the convention ile he know a whole lot more than just where a lot of words come from this education to Is just like everything else you got to judge it ly by results horo here wo we are bettor better educated according to educational all than we ever eter were and andro wo are a off than we ire over nver were so BO ltd ito not living up to its J ts billing its operated ove rated its not worth the arico its costing us more than its worth they got to devise some aoma way of giving more for or the money all ho he ja Is getting out with now Is credits and nobody on the outside 1 Is cashing om am 0 1912 syndics syndi INC |