On the record
The calling of the skilled tiller of the soil, the calling of the skilled mechanic, should alike be recognized as professions, just as emphatically as the callings of lawyer, doctor, merchant, or clerk.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Roosevelt advocates for recognizing skilled farmers and mechanics as professionals on par with traditional professions.
Share
More from Teddy Roosevelt
Apr 22, 1910
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
Aug 30, 1910
Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may be, that I most dislike, and the wealthy…
Apr 22, 1910
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
Other voices in this conversation
