The Country School of Tomorrow

In our dream, [...] The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers , doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply. [...] he task that we set before ourselves is a very simple [...] we will organize our children [...] and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way (p. 13)