John Dewey: “There has been a steady tendency for the education of children to be regarded as properly a state charge in spite of the…”

For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.