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