Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.