“ I reckon that 65 per cent of the men who took me to raise couldn’t be admitted to a club, a church, or a tea party. I reckon that most were unread, most were profane, most broke laws, most didn’t work, most drank too much, and most had dirty fingernails. And I reckon if we filled the schools with them as instructors today, and gave them jobs as cops, and set them up as tutors and baby sitters and camp counselors, we wouldn’t have so much of a problem of delinquency.”
“ I reckon that 65 per cent of the men who took me to raise couldn’t be admitted to a club, a church, or a tea party. I reckon that most were unread, most were profane, most broke laws, most didn’t work, most drank too much, and most had dirty fingernails. And I reckon if we filled the schools with them as instructors today, and gave them jobs as cops, and set them up as tutors and baby sitters and camp counselors, we wouldn’t have so much of a problem of delinquency.”
—Robert Ruark, The Old Man and the Boy