They based their system of education on the actual needs of men.
They know what life is, for they have lived it.

In mine and field and factory they had tasted the salty flavor of real things, and they built a school that has this flavor.
The war drove home a lesson that will forever make false education hateful to me.

Education in the wrong direction can destroy a nation and wreck the happiness of the world.

The German worker was taught that he would get rich, not by patient toil, but by taking by force the wealth that others had created.
On my return from France, where I had witnessed the Hindenburg drive into the heart of France, I addressed the Iron Workers in their national convention.

"I am glad," I said, "that I was born an iron worker and not a Chancellor of Blood and Iron.