Excerpt from Our Public Schools, Their Teachers Pupils and Patrons
The free Public School System of the United States represents the Nation's most serious attempt to make valid the fundamental statement in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights which include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; for the public school is the one place in all the world where there is guaranteed absolute equality of educational opportunity to all, where wealth and ancestry, in and of themselves, count for nothing, and where brains and character and industry are certain to win the recognition they merit.
The chief purpose of the school. - In the public school the rights of the children are sacredly safeguarded; their physical, mental, and moral life carefully conserved; and their liberties made possible and permanent by a training which teaches them to recognize and obey wholesome authority, kindly but firmly exercised, and to respect the rights of others - a training which is absolutely essential to any one who is ever either to pursue or to possess happiness.
The importance of an institution can be measured by the demands made upon it by its friends, who give to it their cordial support. By this standard the public school must be recognized as a large factor in the life of the people.
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