CHAPTER I 



THE JUKES 



Education is something more than going to school 

 for a few weeks each year, is more than knowing 

 how to read and write. It has to do with charac- 

 ter, with industry, and with patriotism. Educa- 

 tion tends to do away with vulgarity, pauperism, 

 and crime, tends to prevent disease and disgrace, 

 and helps to manliness, success and loyalty. 



Ignorance leads to all those things that educa- 

 tion tries to do away with, and it tends to do 

 away with all the things that education tries to 

 cultivate. It is easy to say these things, and every 

 one knows they are true, but few realize how 

 much such statements mean. It is not easy to 

 take a view of such matters over a long range of 

 time and experience. 



A boy that leaves school and shifts for himself by 

 blacking boots, selling papers, and "swiping" fruit 

 often appears much smarter than a boy of the same 

 age who is going to school all the time and does 

 not see so much of the world. A boy of twelve 

 who has lived by his wits is often keener than a 

 boy of the same age who has been well brought 

 up at home and at school, but such a boy knows 



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