Jane Addams on Why Have School?

 

"The business man has, of course, not said to himself, 'I will have the public school train office boys and clerks for me, so that I may have them cheap,' but he has thought, and sometimes said, 'Teach the children to write legibly, to figure accurately and quickly, to acquire habits of punctuality and order; to be prompt to obey and not question why...'"

 
Jane Addams, 1897