Excerpt from Patrons of Democracy
I have been ten years writing this book, and three times ten years living it. This is another "Book of Acts" - rather than words; of practice more than preaching; of sons instead of theories. I wonder if I am not the only living educator with more sons than theories, or methods, or experiments to try out?
Of course, each of my children is an experiment; every individual child is. But American education is not the individual child: it is a national child, and that child is no longer an experiment. Some things in American education are reasonably proved - enough such things to keep every public school working to capacity, and every American school-child busy at his books until he is at least sixteen. It is time we stopped experimenting with public-school education. A few million more experiments will perhaps do no more harm than the millions we have already made; but they hinder education seriously. It is time the nation got down to business - the business of teaching all its people to read, write, and figure, and to get on together.
There is something alarmingly experimental in the sound of this last idea!
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