"Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is...












Education is the development of power and ideal.
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"The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society...
"And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. And to make men, we must have ideals, broad, pure, ...