| Show OUR COUNTRY america was made by its system of free education in no other way could its soul SOUI as a single soul have gone marching on triumphant and unafraid the american of tomorrow Is just as surely being made in the tens of thousands of school rooms where nearly one fourth of all the inhabitants of the land are being taught who we ve are and why we are and that democracy is for the average man the best form of government yet devised there are ire things very wrong about some of the schools some things that are wrong about all the schools but of them all it may be said that they are the vying I 1 ving embodiment of the spirit that made us a nation the very symbol of our freedom we wish that they took into account some more deeply significant things god duty neighborliness social responsibility world consciousness ness but even without these they are the very core of the nations life william frederick bigelow la mar criddle county nurse |
