No nation can permanently retain free government unless it can retain a high average of citizenship; and there can be no such high average of citizenship without a high average of education, using the word in its broadest and truest sense to include the things of the soul as well as the things of the mind.
Roosevelt argues that a high level of education is essential for maintaining free government and citizenship.
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