Stimulative education for adults. Books, newspapers, lectures, working models, museums, exhibits, moving pictures.
The efficient sanitarian is not so great when he conquers a raging epidemic as when he prevents an epidemic that might have raged but for his preventive care, and for this result his most continuous and effectual work is to educate—educate—educate.
Wm. H. Brewer, New Haven Health Association, 1905.
The essential fact in man’s history to my sense is the slow unfolding of a sense of community with his kind, of the possibilities of coöperation leading to scarce-dreamt-of collective powers, of a synthesis of the species, of the development of a common general idea, a common general purpose out of a present confusion.
H. G. Wells, First and Last Things.
The great mass of the population is, indeed, at the present time like clay which has hitherto been a mere deadening influence underneath, but which this educational process, like some drying and heating influence upon that clay, is rendering resonant.
H. G. Wells, New Worlds for Old.
CHAPTER VII
In a store an advertisement reads: “Any kind of tea you prefer; no charge whatever.”
She: “The women look so tired when they come in, and in ten minutes they are so rested and refreshed.”