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and inertia is so heavy and so widespread as to 

 constitute a national danger, and that it should 

 be removed as rapidly as possible. It will be 

 increasingly necessary for the national and state 

 governments to cooperate to bring about the 

 results that are needed in agricultural and other 

 industrial education. 



The consideration of the educational problem 

 raises the greatest single question that has come 

 before the Commission, and which the Commis- 

 sion has to place before the American people. 

 Education has now come to have vastly more 

 significance than the mere establishing and main- 

 taining of schools. The education motive has 

 been taken into all kinds of work with the people, 

 directly in their homes and on their farms, and 

 it reaches mature persons as well as youths. 

 Beyond and behind all educational work there 

 must be an aroused intelligent public sentiment; 

 to make this sentiment is the most important 

 work immediately before us. The whole country 

 is alive with educational activity. While this 

 activity may all be good, it nevertheless needs to 

 be directed and correlated, and all the agencies 

 should be more or less federated. 



