Picking up on Andy's perspicacious observation last week, consider this quote:
Americans regard education as the means by which the inequalities among individuals are to be erased and by which every desirable end is to be achieved. Confront practically any group of citizens with a difficult problem in the sphere of human relations and they will suggest education as the solution.
Sound familiar? This comes from George S. Counts's American Education: Its Men, Ideas, and Institutions, published in 1930.
