Our common task

The history of education has been a series of stormy, volcanic eruptions which have periodically changed the character of American Education. Educators have been hampered because they have been without one consistent aim. Education has been a public enterprise and therefore at the mercy of certain pressure groups, individual opinions, and community whims. Educators have also been hampered because the great philosophers of education have interpreted the values of education individually and personally. Each has been an educational missionary who gathers a group of followers, deviates from other groups, and eventually becomes powerful enough to break through a small fissure in the side of the volcano of education and start another little volcano.