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Such results can be attained only by paths radically different from any thus far followed by child labor reformers. In the first place, the school must be made attractive, and the school work must interest the child. In the words of an educational leader, "I look to see the time when our schools will offer as many and as different choices to the children, as the world of business does to-day." Incompetent teachers, defective equipment, and repressive discipline drive the children from the schools. Commissioner Andrew S. Draper of New York State says,—"I confess that it startles me to find that certainly not more than two-fifths and undoubtedly not more than a third of the children who enter