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Excerpt from Higher Education in Indiana, Vol. 10 "The people who expect to be ignorant and free in a stats of civilization expect what never was and never can be." - Thomas Jefferson. "Popular government without popular education is but a prologue to a farce or to a tragedy, or to both." - James Madison. "In our country and in our time no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim in other countries the elevated rank of a statesman; but unless he speaks, plans, labors at all times and in all places for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he can not be an American statesman." - Horace Mann. "If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble to the dust; but if we work upon immortal minds; if we imbue them with high principles, with just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, but which will brighten and brighten to all eternity." - Anon. "The State - that is every man in the State - is helped by everything that makes the majority wiser, better, or more enlightened. The State stands pledged, through its common schools, its high schools, and its State universities, to give to each one of its boys - and in the West its girls also - the best education that he is willing to receive." - President David Starr Jordan, Indiana University. "Education is an universal right, a prime necessity of man, and it is the duty of the State to provide it." - Dr. J. L. M. Curry. "The Mississippi Valley, where a few years ago 'the danger of barbarism' was pointed out by a gifted orator, has already become a most important factor in the intellectual progress of the country. The center of population, as we know, has already crossed the Alleghany Mountains, and is not far from that central region of political influence from which so many of the highest officers of the Government have come. The wilderness has been explored, the water power measured, the railroads built, the schools and the churches have been planted. We are beginning a new epoch of peace, thrift and enterprise, wiser and more sober as a nation than ever before. We shall attempt better and greater things than hitherto; we shall aspire to do our national part for the advancement of knowledge, in the confidence that this humanity will be benefited, civilization extended, iniquity lessened, and barbarism subdued. We have a continent to teach." - President D. C. Gilman, Johns Hopkins University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.