“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.”
Letter to his son Kermit, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt by Joseph Bucklin Bishop, 1915
One of our challenges is to keep working toward our ideals for schools, for children. How would we keep doing the hand work if we did not believe we could still provide experiences for children to learn and someday contribute to the good of our world?