Excerpt from Schools With a Perfect Score: Democracy"s Hope and Safeguard
The ideal of living a life more abundant is not only one of the most cherished of American ideals but it is also one for which there is ample authority both ancient and modern, both sacred and secular.
Nations, like individuals, transform their cherished ideals into actual realities by means of their individual lives and by means of the institutions which they evolve in order to develop and perpetuate their ideals.
The American public school is not only the best loved of the institutions of the democracy but it is also the most effective agency in existence for human betterment.
This volume would have but little, if any value, if it presented only the ideal of one person or group. If it shall prove to have value it will be because it serves to crystallize those hopes and ideals which countless members of our democracy have in their hearts for all the children and all the people.
The Little Red Schoolhouse of the past, and its successor, the Big Red Schoolhouse of the present and the future, are in very truth the Temple of our Democracy, the Holy of Holies of our national life.
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