For the 95 per cent whose o... by Arthur Capper, an American Politician

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“For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.”

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Name: Arthur Capper

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jul 14, 1865

Date of Death: Dec 19, 1951

Profession: Politician

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We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

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For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

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County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.

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Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.

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We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

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