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.

- Lester Frank Ward

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

- Lester Frank Ward

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 re…

- Lester Frank Ward