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Teddy Roosevelt: “School education can never supplant or take the place of self-education, still less can it in any way take the place of…”

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School education can never supplant or take the place of self-education, still less can it in any way take the place of those rugged and manly qualities which we group together under the name of character; but it can be of enormous use in supplementing both.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt highlights the complementary role of school education in developing character and self-education.

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