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\u201cDemocracy means self-government; self-government necessitates universal education; and universal education can only be accomplished by free public schools under the control of all the people. Let us have done with these hackneyed arguments against the public school.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Charles W. Dabney<\/strong>, American scientist & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cInaugural Address of President Dabney\u201d(16 November 1904) University of Cincinnati Music Hall Auditorium, Cincinnati, OH; University of<\/em> Cincinnati Record<\/em>, Vol. I, No. 3, December 1904 \u2013January 1905, p. 30; online via New York Public Library & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e5c0f9-2bc2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Address as the incoming University of Cincinnati president. Dabney held a doctorate in chemistry and had previously served as an agricultural specialist, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, and as a nonprofit & university leader at other institutions.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocracy means self-government; self-government necessitates universal education; and universal education can only be accomplished by free public schools under the control of all the people. Let us have done with these hackneyed arguments against the public school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us have done with these hackneyed arguments against the public school. Free public schools are not institutions of \u201cpaternalism.\u201d The city or the state does not establish schools as it does orphan asylums for children who have no parents. Who are the voters and tax-payers but the fathers, uncles, and brothers of the children?\u201d (p. 30)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf635381-89e5c0f9-2bc2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: University of Cincinnati Record<\/em> (December 1904-January 1905) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=BuUSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=Democracy+means+self-government;+self-government+necessitates+universal<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5381-89e5c0f9-2bc2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cLet us also cast out of our minds all half-hearted arguments for the free education of all the people. It is true that it pays a community to educate all its youth; but the public school is not a charity institution. School-houses and school-masters are cheaper than jails and soldiers, but we do not build public schools for that reason. Such arguments for free schools are little less than an insult to a free people. Democracy is something nobler than a policeman guarding and protecting our property and our rights. The democracy establishes its public schools to train new citizens and to fit them for self-government.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Charles W. Dabney<\/strong>, American scientist & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cInaugural Address of President Dabney\u201d (16 November 1904) University of Cincinnati Music Hall Auditorium, Cincinnati, OH; University of<\/em> Cincinnati Record<\/em>, Vol. I, No. 3, December 1904 \u2013January 1905, p. 30; online via New York Public Library & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e625381-89e5c0f9-2bc2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Address as the incoming University of Cincinnati president. Dabney held a doctorate in chemistry and had previously served as an agricultural specialist, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and as a nonprofit & university leader at other institutions.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us also cast out of our minds all half-hearted arguments for the free education of all the people. It is true that it pays a community to educate all its youth; but the public school is not a charity institution. School-houses and school-masters are cheaper than jails and soldiers, but we do not build public schools for that reason. Such arguments for free schools are little less than an insult to a free people. Democracy is something nobler than a policeman guarding and protecting our property and our rights. The democracy establishes its public schools to train new citizens and to fit them for self-government<\/span>, and when it shall have done its full duty in this respect there will be little need of policemen and soldiers. A democracy spending hundreds of millions for warships and forts, for armies and navies, is enough to give devils joy.\u201d (p. 30)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5381-89e5c0f9-2bc2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: University of Cincinnati Record<\/em> (December 1904-January 1905) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=BuUSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=Let+us+also+cast+out+of+our+minds+all+half-hearted+arguments+for+the+free+education\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5c0f9-2bc2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cEducation conserves and education advances….It preserves the achievements of man as the foundation on which to build the more stately mansions of the soul. How impossible then to neglect the school and the scholar as factors in the maintenance of civilization!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Charles W. Dabney<\/strong>, American scientist & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cInaugural Address of President Dabney\u201d (16 November 1904) University of Cincinnati Music Hall Auditorium, Cincinnati, OH; University of<\/em> Cincinnati Record<\/em>, Vol. I, No. 3, December 1904 \u2013January 1905, pp. 30-31; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5c0f9-2bc2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Address as the incoming University of Cincinnati president. Dabney held a doctorate in chemistry and had previously served as an agricultural specialist, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and as a nonprofit & university leader at other institutions.]\n

\u201cEducation conserves and education advances.<\/span> Education conserves all the good in the past of the race. It gathers up the fragments, so that the new man takes up the burden of progress which his fathers laid down with their lives: \u201cOther men labored and ye have entered into their labors.\u201d It preserves the achievements of man as the foundation on which to build the more stately mansions of the soul. How impossible then to neglect the school and the scholar as factors in the maintenance of civilization!<\/span>\u201d (pp. 30-31)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5c0f9-2bc2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: University of Cincinnati Record<\/em> (December 1904-January 1905) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=BuUSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=Education+conserves+and+education+advances<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5c0f9-2bc2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThe university is at once the creature and the creator of the democracy; it is born of the people, and it lives for the people. It is the very brain and heart of progress, supplying it with both direction and food. It is at one and the same time the school, the work-shop, the library and the light-house of democracy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Charles W. Dabney<\/strong>, American scientist & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cInaugural Address of President Dabney\u201d (16 November 1904) University of Cincinnati Music Hall Auditorium, Cincinnati, OH; University of<\/em> Cincinnati Record<\/em>, Vol. I, No. 3, December 1904 \u2013January 1905, pp. 33; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Address as the incoming University of Cincinnati president.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe university is at once the creature and the creator of the democracy; it is born of the people, and it lives for the people. It is the very brain and heart of progress, supplying it with both direction and food. It is at one and the same time the school, the work-shop, the library and the light-house of democracy<\/span>. Every democratic state or city must have its university to supply direction for its people and to train their leaders, or it can never realize its glorious aims.\u201d (p. 33)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5c0f9-2bc2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: University of Cincinnati Record<\/em> (December 1904-January 1905) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=BuUSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=The+university+is+at+once+the+creature+and+the+creator+of+the+democracy+it+is+born+of+the+people<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

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