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But, secondly, as stated, as a further, let us say ulti- 

 mate, purpose for which, the public or common schools 

 exist, I place citizenship, self-government, democracy. 

 The crown prince is from his youth up carefully trained. 

 He has before him always the very finest instructors, the 

 highest intellectual and cultural models; and why? 

 Simply that he may be fitted for the place he after while 

 must fill. And so the youthful citizen of the Republic; 

 we summon him to the more difficult task of joining all 

 his fellows in the government of his country; to him 

 and them we entrust the management of its vast con- 

 cerns, the happiness of its millions; the direction of its 

 pregnant future. What preparation shall we not have, 

 what effort shall we not make, in view of such tremen- 

 dous issues? 



The king will govern better if he be hale and happy; 

 physical well-being makes for mental sanity and whole- 

 ness; and so incidentally the training of the king shall 

 concern, if possible, his own well-being and joy in life ; 

 and for the common school the happiness of the child, 

 the citizen, in manhood as in age, becomes a consideration 

 by no means foreign to its purpose. Indeed, if we go 

 deeply into such a survey, the purpose of the common 

 schools will presently become commensurate with our 

 highest intelligence, and in theory, at least, find no limit 

 this side the supreme accomplishments of the human 

 soul. 



The Greeks, who, as I read it, were the discoverers of 

 civil and religious freedom in this world, six hundred 

 years before Christ, established a system of public edu- 

 cation for the purpose of developing individual citizens. 



