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Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done it will disappear.

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society ... [T]he result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.