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President Roosevelt places his hand on a globe and says, “I would not have you preach an impossible ideal,” to a bunch of older men who are teachers.
On February 24, 1908, President Roosevelt hosted a delegation of the National Education Association at the White House. He delivered lengthy remarks, a transcript of which was published throughout the country and in the NEA’s Journal.
President Roosevelt teaches an “author,” “teacher,” “editor,” and “professor” how to spell. He points at “Prezident Rozyvelt’s Reform Speling,” which replaces words like “kissed” with “kist,” “bite” with “byte,” “sea” with “c,” and “high” with “hy.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-02
Blank form for the reporting of work and experience of American teachers in the Philippines.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12
Blank form for reporting on school buildings in the Philippines.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12
Blank form for the reporting of school supplies at schools in the Philippines.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12
The photograph includes Bert Flora, education adviser for the Civilian Conservation Corps, walking up the side of a butte in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
Police Commissioner Roosevelt thanks Walter Hines Page for his letter. He agrees with Hines about “the lack of educated men in proper National feeling.”
1896-01-10
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. at Albany Academy. He wears a military-styled uniform. A dog lays at his feet.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899
President Booker T. Washington reports on the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The report includes budget considerations, scholarships, work of students, graduates’ plans, and new construction. Note that pages 4-5 are missing from this report.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-31
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit to thank him for taking care of Archie at Groton School. He also gives Kermit advice on what to do when he finishes at Groton, urging him to go on to Harvard.
1907-09-24
In this article from his series on South America for The Outlook, Theodore Roosevelt discusses Argentine countryside, economics of large estates, Rosario, Tucuman, education and factories.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1914-04-11
As part of his series of articles on South America for The Outlook, Theodore Roosevelt discusses the University in Cordoba, Argentina, and Cordoba’s school system, agriculture, events and politics.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1914-04-18
Article discussing Dr. Charles Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard’s article in The Outlook regarding religious ideal in education.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1911-11-12
Puck stands next to a statue of Peter Cooper in front of the Cooper Union building, holding a paper that states “Puck suggests a few outlets for overflowing incomes.” Crowds of working class men and women and disadvantaged youths in need of proper education fill the sides, while in the center throngs of people stream toward the entrances to the Cooper Union building.
Inventor and philanthropist Peter Cooper established Cooper Union in 1859 as a school, totally or substantially tuition-free, primarily to teach trades and industrial arts. In an impressive building on New York City’s Astor Place, in its first year it hosted the most important speech of Abraham Lincoln’s pre-presidential canvass; and can boast of many prominent graduates through the years. As it expanded, a daytime engineering college and a four-year undergraduate program both were established in 1902, the date of Ehrhart’s cartoon. He implicitly criticizes Andrew Carnegie, whose eponymous libraries, in the cartoon’s view, did not serve common workers. However, Carnegie himself contributed greatly to Cooper Union during 1902. Generally, Puck was celebrating a New York institution on the occasion of its general reputation and its contemporary expansion. Cooper Union, by the way, is less than five minute’s walk from the Puck Building, which still sits on the corner of Houston and Mulberry Streets in Manhattan.
Santa Claus, with coat over left arm and holding a fan, perspiring, offers a bundle of “Education” books labeled “Uncle Sam to the Filipino” to a young Filipino boy, who, with hands behind his back, dubiously looks up at him. Santa’s bag of toys is on the ground between them. Caption: Santa Claus — Phew! I’m glad to oblige Uncle Sam, of course. But next time I come I’ll wear khaki!
Adding to the joke about flannel outfits in tropical weather was Keppler’s observation about the putative goal of American colonial policy, at least in the Philippines: to educate the natives. President McKinley, initially very much opposed to a war with Spain and the acquisition of colonies, eventually persuaded himself that it was the duty of the United States to “Christianize the islands.”
In an urban setting, many men wearing the cap and gown of college graduates are performing a variety of manual labor occupations. Caption: Sixty-eight million dollars were give for colleges last year; – if the mania for college education continues we may soon expect the above state of affairs.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-01-22
On behalf of President Roosevelt, George B. Cortelyou asks Secretary of State Hay if he considers the William McKinley Normal and Industrial School a “worthy institution.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06-09
President Roosevelt writes to Governor General of the Philippines Taft to discuss the agitation among American Catholics regarding the friars in the Philippines. Opposition to Archbishop John Ireland and the schools have complicated the political situation and could be damaging during the congressional elections. Roosevelt hopes that Luke E. Wright can succeed Taft as Governor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-29
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Edward Hulse for his letter and states he is in favor of any government that addresses the needs of unfortunate people who live in the mountains of the South. Roosevelt is aware of the “great strides” by Miss Berry’s school in Georgia in training boys from the mountains and hopes similar programs will be carried on where the same problem exists in other states.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-07
Theodore Roosevelt read Thomas R. Lounsbury’s volume on Robert Browning with keen pleasure and agrees with Lounsbury. He is very fond of Browning’s work, even those he cannot understand. Roosevelt theorizes that others read Browning for the puzzle of figuring out his philosophy. Lounsbury’s article on themes delighted Roosevelt, especially as Kermit Roosevelt is taking a course on the subject. He is annoyed by the general belief that some new machinery will solve educational, political, and social problems.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-27