History-Revisited

"For our knowledge of history teaches us this much: that the object of public education in the American Colonies and the later states up to 1865, was to produce good men. The system may have been imperfect in detail, but its aim was correct. Today the object of American education is to turn out graduates-whether good, bad, or indifferent we neither know nor care. Formerly, quantity had to give place to quality; today it is the reverse." -John Gould Fletcher

From an essay entitled "Education, Past and Present. In I'll Take My Stand from the 1930's.