It was to make not only common to all education, but in some sense compulsory for all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Think of education as a means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
