If boys and girls are trained merely in literary accomplishments, to the total exclusion of industrial, manual, and technical training, the tendency is to unfit them for industrial work and to make them reluctant to go into it, or unfitted to do well if they do go into it.
Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of industrial training alongside literary education for youth.
Share
More from Teddy Roosevelt
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.
The boundaries of said National Forest are now as shown on the said diagram.
Other voices in this conversation
