Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

VIII

Every child in the country has known of Clara Barton.

Oakland (Calif.) Tribune.

Pestalozzi was the Father of the Public School; Washington the Father of his Country; Lincoln, the Father of a Race; Clara Barton, the Mother of the Red Cross. The Author.

The building which housed Clara Barton in her efforts for popular education is still standing along with other historic landmarks.

Bordentown (N. J.) Register.

If you will let me try, I will teach the children free for six months. Clara Barton.

I thank God that we have no free schools—in the colony—and I hope we shall not have these hundred years.

Governor Berkeley of Virginia in 1670.

The first incorporation to provide free schools, under the provisions of the State, was passed in New York in 1805.

The Modern School System.

The basis of free government is in education; in a republic the hope of the millions is the free public school.

The Two Republics.

The hope of all modern civilization is the public free school.

Ancient School Systems.

I taught in an uninclosed shed at North Oxford, there being no house for that purpose. Clara Barton.

The first meetings for the establishment of a kindergarten system at Washington was held at the Clara Barton home, in Washington; among others present Phoebe Hearst and Mrs. Grover Cleveland, wife of the President, the chairman. The Author.

Let us live in our children. Frederick Froebel.