I know one place in the northern part of the state where I camped a while in the summer, and I went to the school and talked to the teachers. They are using school books which have been passed down from one child to another. They have practically no books outside of
the textbooks. The children in the district are so poor and some of them so pathetic that I suppose the struggle to live has been so great you
could not think much about what you fed the mind, but I came away feeling that right there, in one of the biggest and richest states in the
country, we had a big area that needed books and needed libraries to help these schools in the education of the children, and, even more,
to help the whole community to learn to live through their minds.
We are doing a tremendous amount through the home economics colleges to help people to learn how to live in their homes, to better their
standards of material living. We have got to think in exactly the same way about helping them to live mentally and to attain better
standards, and we can do it only through the children. We can do ground work with the children; we must begin with them, but we have got
to do a tremendous amount with the older people.
What is one central idea of Roosevelt's writing?
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the need for libraries in order to help improve people's overall quality of life
the need to educate parents and children about the value of books
the need to prioritize learning over other material concerns
the need for efforts that are focused on teaching children to read
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Read the excerpt from "the storyteller." the smaller girl created a diversion by beginning to recite "on the road to mandalay.” she only knew the first line, but she put her limited knowledge to the fullest possible use. she repeated the line over and over again in a dreamy but resolute and very audible voice; it seemed to the bachelor as though some one had had a bet with her that she could not repeat the line aloud two thousand times without stopping. whoever it was who had made the wager was likely to lose his bet. "come over here and listen to a story,” said the aunt, when the bachelor had looked twice at her and once at the communication cord. the children moved listlessly towards the aunt’s end of the carriage. evidently her reputation as a storyteller did not rank high in their estimation. in a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good, and made friends with every one on account of her goodness, and was finally saved from a mad bull by a number of rescuers who admired her moral character. which instances of situational irony occur in the passage? select two options. a.) “whoever it was who had made the wager was likely to lose his bet.” b.) “‘come over here and listen to a story,’ said the aunt, when the bachelor had looked twice at her and once at the communication cord.” -- c.) “the children moved listlessly towards the aunt’s end of the carriage.” d.) “evidently her reputation as a story-teller did not rank high in their estimation.” -- e.) “in a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good.”