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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is a good thing to produce a certain number of trained scholars and students; but the education superintended by the…”

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It is a good thing to produce a certain number of trained scholars and students; but the education superintended by the State must seek rather to produce a hundred good citizens than merely one scholar, and it must be turned now and then from the class book to the study of the great book of nature itself.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt advocates for an education system that prioritizes the development of good citizens over merely producing scholars.

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