“We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.” MenWantMeanUsedNationsGrowingGenerationsYouthLaborDifficultyDestroyedHardshipPenaltiesWomanhoodManhoodReapDinosaursReproachSowingProdigalsNature ConservationOlder GenerationArbor DayYouth Life Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.” WayWellsMeanEnoughGrowsEnjoyHoursEducationTeacherTeachingCreationYouthTrainingCapacityLaborExcellenceSizeEducationalTechniqueClassroomLeisureNew WaysExploringPreparingEducational SystemLove Of Learning Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.” IdeasHandsFormYouthLaborIntelligentProgressiveHonorableSkillful Author:Booker T. Washington
“All of the youth ferment on campuses is a very good thing. Lots of people are being permanently transformed and will do good thing throughout their lives. However, young people must be careful not to be coopted, even by labor unions and the like. They must keep their eye on a radical transformation of society.” PeopleEyeYoungYouthLaborTransformationGood ThingsUnionsVery GoodCarefulRadicalBe CarefulTransformedCampusLabor Union Author:Michael Yates
“Not many academics do labor education. Why not? The need is great. This is where the youth are so important. If faculty were as engaged as young students are in anti sweatshop campaigns, prison campaigns, etc., it would be a good thing.” IfsNeedsImportantWould BeYoungYouthStudentsLaborPrisonGood ThingsCampaignsEngagedEtcFacultyWhy NotSweatshopsYoung Students Author:Michael Yates
“It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.” ShouldYearsDoeHardEasyYouthLaborDelightComparisonYear One Book:The American Way of Life Source: The American Way of Life