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I think the most important education that we have is the education which now I am glad to say is being accepted as the proper one, and one which ought to be widely diffused, that industrial, vocational education which puts young men and women in a position from which they can by their own efforts work themselves to independence.

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Address to the State Institute and College at Columbus, Mississippi, October 12, 1910. Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft, March 4, 1909, to March 4, 1910, 1: 396-97, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1910).

A female institution.

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