Title: Jukes-Edwards; a study in education and heredity, by A.E. Winship.
Abstract:Education is something more than going to school for a few weeks each year, is more than knowing how to read and write.It has to do with charac- ter, with industry, and with patriotism.Education tends...Education is something more than going to school for a few weeks each year, is more than knowing how to read and write.It has to do with charac- ter, with industry, and with patriotism.Education tends to do away with vulgarity, pauperism, and crime, tends to prevent disease and disgrace, and helps to manliness, success and loyalty.Ignorance leads to all those things that educa- tion tries to do away with, and it tends to do away with all the things that education tries to cultivate.It is easy to say these things, and every JUKES-ED WARDS about as much and is about as much of a man at twelve as he will ever be, while the boy that gets an education becomes more and more of a man as long as he lives.But this might be said a thousand times to every truant, and it would have very little eflfect, because he thinks that he will be an exception.He never sees beyond his own boyish smartness.Few men and women realize how true it is that these smart rascally fellows, who persist in remain- ing in ignorance, are to be the vicious, pauper, criminal class who are to fill the dens of vice, the poorhouses, and the prisons; who are to be burg- lars, highwaymen, and murderers.In place of opinions, it is well sometimes to present facts so clear and definite that they cannot be forgotten.R. A. Dugdale, of New York State, began the study of "The Jukes" family in 1874, and in 1877 in the twentieth annual report of the New York Prison Commission he made a statement of the results.*This brief summary of "the Jukes" is based upon the facts which Mr. DugdaleRead More