Speech at the congregation of Czechoslovak teachers.
In Zlín, on August 5, 1938.
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Speech at the congregation of Czechoslovak teachers.
In Zlin, on August 5, 1938.
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Gentlemen!
I warmly welcome you to Zlin for your congress. If I wasn't an entrepreneur, I would want to be a teacher. Why? Because I don't know of any other profession - besides my own - from which I can build as much as I could from being a teacher. You teachers have in your hands the most precious thing in the world – young people. When we put into numbers, you have in your hands 1,800,000 children from schools and 550,000 middle-school children. You and your children will be the future of the republic. Every nation is basically built up by its teachers.
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