A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.
At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.
Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.
I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.