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...Comparisons are odious, especially after I have partaken of your local product, but one thing you on the River Colne and I on Helford River have in common is that we both have been doing badly in recent years...
England is now rapidly moving toward effective universal school training, not alone in primary, but in secondary grades as well. And the universities are rapidly opening their doors to the product of the ever-increasing secondary schools, instead of confining their entrants almost exclusively to graduates of the old "public schools," (such as Eton and Harrow, which correspond to American private preparatory schools...
Most American educators are now alive to the fact that 919,381 enrolled college and university students, the product in too many cases of chance, fashion or fancy, are by no means the triumph of education which they once thought them. Instead, they are now seeking a way back to Jeffersonian democracy in education, a method of unscrambling the egg, a system which shall restore to higher education its democratic duty of confining its ministrations to minds willing and able to profit by care and direction...
Americans are compelled to admit that the "educated American," the normal product of free institutions, is still, on the average, ill-informed and, worse still, lacking in those vital intellectual interests which insure continued intellectual effort after the initial course, the university days, are over. By neglecting the principle of selection for fitness, America has failed to give to prospective leadership the training and, equally important, the lasting interest in the world of ideas, which alone can insure effective leadership. Her soundest educational leaders still have, as had Jefferson, full faith in the doctrine of universal education; but they...
Advertisers are the greatest Sophists of all time; and today only a keen, dispassionate mind can drive straight to the point of inquiring whether or not a product is really of the slightest use. Weaker souls are at once mired in the gumbo of sentimentality and rhetoric. When they buy, they pay for the most expensive romantic poetry ever written...