Edward Alsworth Ross Inspirational Quotes (3)

The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in society a longer lever to work with.

A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.