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...recently: "Formal education is a system of training devised by aduits in order that the rising generation may be prepared to carry on the program regarded as important by the adults of that particular stage of civilization." A little thought will quickly reveal how keenly this analyzes the general ideal of education today. It has been left for Barrie, one of the "adults," to point out the dangers of such a conception, and to clear the way for change. Youth must not fear to think for itself; it must not trust Age; it must not believe all that...
What is planned is the creation of an ideal. The trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation, which has undertaken the enterprise, have appointed a committee of prominent New Yorkers who will give to the people within the next few years a definite plan; the burden of accomplishment is then shifted to the people themselves. Needless to say, the plan will represent the best efforts of engineers, artists, architects, social workers, and economists. Four exhaustive preliminary surveys have been organized; analyzing living conditions: existing law in control of the area; topographical and physical facilities; and the economic and industrial potentialites...
...American Committee has procured an ideal site for the Library building. It is a large plot, almost square, with a frontage of over two hundred feet, or somewhat less than a city block. The building will face the large central square of the town, La Place du Pueple, a grass-covered common intersected with walks and dotted with trees and shrubbery...
...hour congestion, all would be reduced to a minimum or eliminated. Everybody would be more comfortable, healthier and happier. Our people would not be living so much in layers. Instead most people would be in their own homes spread out through the open country, thus making living conditions more ideal...
...college,--and that is contact; the college, the faculty, must do their utmost to keep in touch with the men. Only in this way can the number of misfits, always too numerous, be lessens Only by combining the small group and the wider field can be the ideal of college be difined and the ever present specter of limitation laid...