Chapter 13

_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._