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Excerpt from The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ItWhen I was planning a great school for the education of orphans, some of my associates said: Let us teach them to be pedagogues. I said: No, let us teach them the trades. A boy with a trade can do things. A theorist can say things. Things done with the hands are wealth, things said with the mouth are words. When the housing shortage is over and we find the nation suffering from a shortage of words, we will close the classes in carpentry and open a class in oratory.