Chapter VII

_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._