Show I American Teachers Can Realize American Ideal With Public Support By Dy DR J J. E. E RUSSELL Teachers Teachers' ge CoUl Columbia University American teachers can set setup up an ideal characteristically American arid and we can realize rea it if tho the public will give us the necessary support No blind obedience but voluntary operation co-operation shall be our watchword We shall seek contentment through intelligent exercise of our individual talents and find happiness in the possession of our own attainments Never before has a nation been founded on the proposition that all men are Bre created equal and nowhere in history has intelligent self-direction self been set up as ns a national ideal of education The need for an intelligent electorate goes far beyond the choice of political leaders lenders Confidence in the integrity and unselfishness of leaders is the first essential in the democratic program of social reform The maintenance of civil order and social security logi logically precedes the rise of leaders Population is shifting from the country to the city E Elbow ow b-ow room is growing less Every year ear makes it harder for some to maintain a decent standard of living The old world i with its woes stands begging at our door Discontent is spreading like a fatal disease among great groups of our citizens This tendency unless checked can have hilve only one result result our our e experiment in democratic government gO nt will surely fail and with it the h hopes pcs of a world worn out with travail of new-born new ideas of freedom i r i r i r i cc ty cc J 5 45 S 4 55 S |