And for you, teachers, you who have the destinies of these schools in your hands, keep your eyes and ears open, and your souls alive to the possibilities of your profession.  Let no machine nor method crush out your own individuality, and suffer no power to induce, or to force you to make a business of turning a crank that runs a mill whose office it is to grind humanity to one common form, each individual like every other, interchangeable like the parts of a government musket!

Understand, first, last, and all the time, that characters cannot be manufactured like pins, by the million, and all alike; neither can salvation be handled in job lots.  It is also true that wholesaling education can never be made a success.

Because, personal character is all there is in this world that amounts to anything in the final resolution of things.  It is not money, nor governments, nor machines, that are of value in the last analysis.  It is character!  It is individuality!  It is men!

To secure these things this old world turns over once in twenty-four hours, and swings around the sun in yearly revolution.  For these, tides ebb and flow, the land brings forth, and the clouds float in the sky.  To these all forces are but servants.  For these Christ died.

And like begets like, in the public schools as elsewhere.  It is character in the teacher that begets character in the pupil.  The machine makes after its own kind also, and both it and its products can be measured with a line.

The soul cannot be measured with a line.

So the ultimatum is personality, individuality, and character, in every teacher and pupil in the public schools, and freedom of each to develop in his own way, and not after a pattern made and prepared by a pattern maker.

If the public school live long, its friends must take these items into account and act on them.  It is its only salvation.

THE END.