Liberalism and Adult Civic Education

People are idle, we are told, because they produced too much. They are feverishly preparing for more ghastly wars, and yet they hate and fear war. They are not well fed, and yet they destroy food. They are poorly clothed, and yet they plow under cotton and run their marvelous textile mills at less than half their capacity. They lack proper educational facilities for their children because of vast curtailments of opportunity and no proper expansion, and yet they have thousands of trained teachers ready and eager to educate. I do not intend to discuss a plan by which these dangerous paradoxes may be dissolved. Literally dozens of plans have been proposed. Some of our most careful students of social problems have produced schemes for making the technological era serve the masses of men with abundance and security. You are familiar with some of these programs. Suffice it to say here that even the so-called experts disagree and advocate highly conflicting plans for social change and improvement. Granted that we are in a muddled situation, that something must be done to make life more reasonable, more sensible, and thus more livable for the masses of the people, the question I want to pose is: What is the function of education? More than that, what is the function of liberalism in education

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