Introductory material
Reading edition
“IF you are going to do anything permanent for the average man you have got to begin before he is a man. The chance of success lies in working with the boy and not with the man. That applies peculiarly to those boys who tend to drift off into courses which mean that unless they are checked they will be formidable additions to the criminal population when they grow older.
“No Nation is safe unless in the average family there are healthy, happy children.
“If these children are not brought up well they are not merely a curse to themselves and their parents, but they mean the ruin of the State in the future.”
President Theodore Roosevelt.
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