Thus our schools are not mere whetstones to the intellect; they are institutions for evening up society; they resist the tendency to separation into classes, which grows with the prosperity of a community; they bind together, in cordial sympathy, all classes of citizens.
Beecher asserts that schools play a crucial role in promoting social equality and preventing class separation.
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