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Education is important to the individual because it means
development of the brain, development of capacity for production
and increased chances of success.
Education is important to the State because it means not only
COMPETENT citizens, but MORAL citizens.
The animal in us yields to the influence of education. Knowledge
and brutality are enemies. They do not dwell together.
The most important institutions in this country are the public
schools--the gymnasiums of human brains. The most important
citizens of the nation are the teachers.
The greatest criminals are the employers of child labor, because
they deny education, cut down in childhood the citizen's chance
of progress and success.
Work and vote for more and better public schools.
POVERTY IS THE FATHER OF VICE, CRIME AND FAILURE
These are days when men do their hardest work for money, when
they scramble and struggle and strike each other down in the
effort to reach wealth. And it is not possible to blame them.
They are trying to escape from poverty, from a disaster worse
than any prairie fire or other physical danger.
Dire poverty is the worst of curses. It combines every kind of
suffering, physical, mental, moral, and in the end it means
either death or degradation.
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