When the dead arise, when the mythic incarnates, when schools cease being the haunt of mediocrity and become the seminary of culture, there will be fruits to see. Until then there is work at hand for educational leaders.

It is wholly pointless for these heroic instructors to carry on in the present combinations. It is a fool’s errand to tarry there, and I the fool have done it long enough b’times to know it so. All have sold the pass, all want municeps where there once were men, all have run up the white flag to middle-class respectability. Let them be, they’re with O’Leary in the grave. There must be a striking out into something altogether different from the mainstream, and from what flatters itself as an alternative.”