Excerpt from The Teacher and the State: Address Before the Graduating Classes of the Iowa State Teachers College, June 9th, 1914 This is the time for gratulation; Weightier matters, I am advised, may now for this day, at least, be laid aside. Comenius and Pestalozzi, Herbart and Montessori, Hegel and Schleier macher, and all the rest may be forgotten. To-day is to-day, and all its windows open to the future. Needless to say, that future, for this class of 1914, is very bright. This is Iowa; white clouds only sweep slowly through azure deeps, flowers deck all the landscapes, and the sunlight lies upon the rising harvests. And yet, were we called upon to give reasons for such optimism as at this moment here prevails, such confidence, such security of mind, we might find ourselves, as usual, em harrassed for reply. We might begin to think again of examinations, happily now forever past; and only at the last might we fall back upon the general buoyancy of youth and find there, perhaps, the most obvious reason why, for us today, the fields and skies are fair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.