Show ROOSEVELT SPEAKS OF EDUCATION 9 1 in n an address before the fiah general convention of the religious education association in washington president roosevelt Koo sevelt declared that it was eminently S right that we vve americans should berroud be proud of our material pros and our widely diffused and exceedingly practical system of education but neither he declared will avail if some soine thing else is not added to the nation fi it is necessary that we should see that the children be trained not merely in reading and writing but to be more fofe efficient workers in every field of human activity but they must be trained in more than that or the nation will go down they f must be trained so sa that it dball come naturally to them to a abhor that which aa is evil or we can never see our democracy tali take e the place which 1 it t must and i shall take among the nations of the earth earah I 1 would tell every young man that it is his first duty to pull his own weight to take care of himself and take care of those dependent upon lie be cannot others until he has first made mad it certain that he be will not be a burden upon others no one in the land is more interested te in seeing M the right kind of training in the schools than is the president of the united states and it was to be expected that he would have something anti inti interesting cresting er esting to say on the subject during the meeting of the na dional educational association in washington in a few days ago at a reception at the white house given to to the department of superintendence per he spoke of the importance of the teachers work what its ideals and results should be fundamentally he be said 1 this coultry is sound mor ally no less than physically fundamentally in its family life and in the outside activities of its individuals the country is belter better and not worse than it t 1 7 t c formerly was this does no not mean that we are to be excused if we fail to war against rottenness and corruption if we fail to contend effectively wilh wih the forces evil and they waste their time who ask me to withhold my hand from dealin dealing tzi therewith you are training Dg ug the next generation are training C this country as it is to be a decade or two hence and while your work in training flug the intellect is great it IS is riot as great as your work in training character more than anything else I 1 want to see the public school turn out the boy and gi girl ra who when man and woman will add to the ae sum of good citizenship of the nation he urged that training be toward the workshop instead of away from it so that the people I 1 will see that those who do manual labor fill the mos most important positions in the land one thing he continued that I 1 would like to have you teach your pupils is that whether you yoa crall the money gained salary or wages does not make any ciny real difference and that if b by work in ing hard with your hands you get more than if you wo work ik with your you Y head only it does not ato atone r ne for it to call the smaller amount salary teach th the aboy boy th that at h he e is to be expected to earn his own livelihood that it is a shame and scandal for him not to be self dependent rot not to be able to hold his own in the rou rough h work of actual life teach the girl that so far from its being her duty tp to avoid all labor all effort that it should be a matter of pride to her to be as good a housewife as her mother was before her |