And if you wish to see that kind of school in action, you can see it at Mooseheart, Illinois.
There is a school with more than a thousand students, boys and girls of various ages, ranging from one month to eighteen years.

Some of the students were born there, the mother having been admitted with her youngsters soon after the loss of the father.

Each lad will get an introduction to a dozen trades, and when he selects the one that fits him best, he will specialize in that and graduate at eighteen, prepared for life.

This education is the gift of more than half a million foster fathers.

The Moose are mostly working men, and so they equip their wards for industrial life, and then place them on the job.
A boy that knows how to build concrete houses will not have to sleep in haystacks.