"The public school is the one force, is the only force, that can unify all classes and conditions of society. Here we have the children of the nation in their entirety, and we can, if we will, teach them in the schools so much of the grandeur of our possessions, of the heroic in our history, of the brilliant in our prosperity, of the fascinating in our traditions, that the fathers of the future will be willing to vote for, and die, if need be, for, the American idea; that the mothers of the future will teach their sons to develop our resources by industry, to honor the historic heroism of our sires, to project the brilliancy of our prosperity into the future, to cherish, with unwavering devotion, the traditions of the land."
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"Our Education Must Be American", in Henry B. Carrington (ed.) Patriotic Reader; or, Human Liberty Developed (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1888), p. 539
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Albert Edward Winship
Albert Edward Winship (February 24, 1845 – February 16, 1933) was a pioneering American educator and educational journalist.
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