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Harry Preble Swett
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The Conning Tower of 1932 To the Graduates of the Four Year History Curriculum Suppose we take for a theme the democratic philosophy of education. Popular education is advocated on various grounds. One of the most common runs like this. If popular government is to endure, the people must be wise enough and experienced enough to keep their governments stable. To secure this result universal education is necessary. A survey of the troubled political life of the world to-day will cause one to note regretfully the need of training in order that there may be stability of government. But we are not now pausing at regrets, especially when the regrets indicate the value of education. There is another reason for pause. This theory of universal education, good as it may be for some purposes, is a kind of hysteron proteron; it is wrong end to. To be exact people are not educated for the sake of their governments. This is the language of absolutism and of other forms of government of the present with different names. With democracies governments are for the benefit of the citizens, not citizens for the benefit of their governments. This modern discovery of the wisdom of universal education is a great emergent idea. The thought that all persons should have a government for their good is a similar emergent idea similarly based. The basis is this: every person is worthy of education, is worthy of having his powers developed. Much of our discussions in class has been related to the thought that human values have cosmic value. This is a profound truth. If so, universal education is founded upon the thought and leads directly towards the thought that every human individual has intrinsic significance here and now, and also has significance for all eternity. This is the philosophic implication of democracy and of universal education. What a motive force this will be in the world when its meaning is understood more fully and widely. Its effects will be traceable in all fields of activity, religious, social, political, and scientific. Let your imagination fill in details. The movement for a general understanding and application of this principle is well started, but, as ever, with broad social and intellectual events, progress is slow. Persons trained as you have been trained are in an advantageous position for accelerating the process. [31] H. P. SWETT.
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