Education passage

I am, was the reply to the question, became the watchword of modern civilisation. In the present age of rapid movement and intense activity, men shoot arrow-flight beyond arrow-flight, in the old days of quiet contemplation, the impulses of the individual are communicated to the species, and the species passes on to the next generation the torch of life. The great question of humanity is, what shall be done to inherit a permanent good? became the great question of life. The answer to it, in a word, was, Education. And the education of the citizen, in a state organised for self-protection, passed from the family to the school, and from the school to the state. In the family, the child was taught to lisp its first words, and in the