Education monologue — The light: An educational pageant

(_sternly_) The children I showed you are the children of America; and would you train a selected few to rule this land? If you say _yes_, then are you a traitor to America. You would overthrow this Democracy--the “government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” and substitute an aristocracy--a government of the people, by a favored class, for--what? Nay! I tell you, “the end of American education is the knowledge and the practice of Democracy.” The education of the children in a democracy is the concern of all the public. It must be an education of all the people, paid for by all the people. You sent millions of Americans across the sea to make the world safe for Democracy. You must educate every child in the land to make democracy safe for America. “Education is the most sacred concern, and the only hope of a nation.”