Education: At Edinburgh

At Edinburgh

Tis education forms 'the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

The World Federation of Education Associations spent an animated week at Edinburgh, Scotland, reaffirming their belief that the proper inclination for trees (future citizens) of all countries is toward a condition of international affairs wherein armed hostilities shall be be rendered psychologically impossible through agencies vaguely known as "cosmopolitan culture," "international understanding," "human fellowship," "world literacy."

To a short-sighted man, this desired inclination toward what is commonly called...

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