Americans Began By Loving Youth, And Now,

We Cannot Appreciate The Art Of Any Age Without First Acquiring An Equivalent Of The Experience It Depicts.

I Can Only Think That The Book Is Read Because It Deals With The Difficulties Of Schooling, Which Do Not Change. Please Note: The Difficulties, Not The Problems. Problems Are Solved Or Disappear With The Revolving Times. Difficulities Remain. It Will Always Be Difficult To Teach Well, To Learn Accurately; To Read, Write, And Count Readily And Competently; To Acquire A Sense Of History And Start One's Education Or Anothers.

The Sole Justification Of Teaching, Of The School Itself, Is That The Student Comes Out Of It Able To Do Something He Could Not Do Before. I Say Do And Not Know, Because Knowledge That Doesn't Lead To Doing Something New Or Doing Something Better Is Not Knowledge At All.

The One Thing That Unifies Men In A Given Age Is Not Their Individual Philosophies But The Dominant Problem That These Philosophies Are Designed To Solve.

The Educated Man Had Throughout The Ages Found A Way To Covert Passionate Activity Into Silent And Motionless Pleasure. He Can Sit Still In A Room And Not Perish.