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Caption: Booklet - Element of Inspiration in the Schools (1902)
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c w /e- THE LIS AR> SE! 1 University of the State of New York THE ELEMENT OF iNsril \TI<>\ l \ THE SCHOOL l'.V l');i \ \ i ' i ; i : \ v s. DRAPER, i \ ! \ i i ; - i n OF IL1 SolS The growth of the American school Bystem supplies material for a i markable, a fascinating, even a patriotic and glorious Btory, No other great people ever gained Buch splendid eduational con ptions; the ma stand for unlimited edo i« tional opportunity to everj son and daughter of the | No »ther people ei P thought of providing Bchools for every rod such a wide and sparsely settled territory as ours; no other people ever attempted to provide the best free ihools of all - foi ill classes in uch citi( as ours. No other gi nal 'ii in the world has builded an educational system on such plans—so flexible, so adaptable to the natio ends, \pr ive and promotive of the national life. And it lias not 1- o done 1>\ a monan hv, or 1>\ a ministry trough t la* u of dictatorial powers, but by the millions of a great, liberal people nio\ i by the highest purposes, acting through primary n tings and then tercising sovereign powers through repi ntaTi\• - and sponsible a emblag . What other p »ple in all bistorv i-v(»r overcame the inertia < conditions, ever triumphed over the hindrances to cooperative action in the multitude, ei P supplanted the rule of for with the rule of 1 > «\ 1 sens< r brought scientific investigation and rational nd matic method to the training of the child so completely and fullv, ever made such munificent public and prival ills to learning, ever toofc ill the gi u steps leading to \ch splendid realization of noble purpos* . quickly, unitedly nd ill\. as that mightv people which has h n :n[founded out of all the peoples of the earth in this fr • land a the last two generations of men? Seme other peoples ha> doi much; me ether peoples are doing some things in their better than w are doing those things in ours; but it not » " much i<» saj and as It is true it is a glorious thing t > <> < that the thinking and the doing of no ether people ever r uited in such o comprehensive, such a unique system of < ipular edu ttion ai that brought forward by the American •pie in the last hall ntury of time.
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