"These and other great systems of measure have been adopted as barriers against error and guilt; they have been extended over empires, prolonged through centuries, and administered with terrible energy; and yet the great ocean of vice and crime overleaps every embankment, pours down upon our heads, saps the foundations under our feet, and sweeps away the securities of social order, of property, liberty, and life."
Horace Mann, "Twelfth Annual Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education" (1848) in James W. Fraser, The School in the United States: A Documentary History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
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Date: 2009-01-17 06:32 am (UTC)Horace Mann, "Twelfth Annual Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education" (1848) in James W. Fraser, The School in the United States: A Documentary History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.