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Excerpt from A Plan for an University Extension Department: To Be Used as Basis of Discussion at the Conference on University and Public Service, Wednesday Afternoon, August 25, 1915
Ifty millions of men God gives us to mould; burning ques tions, keen debate, great interests trying to vindicate their right to be, sad wrongs brought to the bar of public judgment, these, says Wendell Phillips, are the people's schools. He continues, Trust the people - the wise and the ignorant, the good and the bad - with the gravest questions, and in the end you educate the race. At the same time you secure, not perfect institutions, not necessarily good ones, but the best institutions possible while human nature'is the basis and the only material to build with. That is the fundamental faith back of the extension move ment. It is the faith of democracy. It finds expression in the potent influence of public opinion among us. It is the advice of Washington in his Farewell Address: Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffa sion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a govern ment gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. 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.
