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Show Conviction That Education Is Substitute for Work Rather Than a Tool By JAMES J. DAVIS, U. S. Secretary of Labor. We have allowed the conviction to grow among many of our younger citizens that education is a substitute for work rather a tool to work with, an end rather than means. The ultimate outcome of this system continued without reform or amendment would be the crration of a nation where every man and woman would have the learning of books, and none would have that learning of the hands which is so vital to national prosperity and progress. We must restore the dignity of labor by teaching the trades in our schools. We must offer to every child that training of hand and heart, as well as head, which will enable him to go forth into the world equipped to care for himself and to take his place as a self-supporting, self-respecting citizen, a credit to himself and an asset to society. My ideal is to turn out of our schools children equipped wrth a high school education, as that education edu-cation is now known and a trade. v. |