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Comment by Avicebron
"In our dream, we have limitless resources, and the
people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand.
The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and,
unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a
grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make
these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of
learning or of science. We are not to raise up from among them
authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for
embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish
even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers,
doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have
ample supply." - Frederick T. Gates (The Country School of To-Morrow)