Just two questions Help Please: “Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the condition
s of men,—the balance WHEEL of the social machinery. I do not here mean that it so elevates the moral nature as to make men disdain and abhor the oppression of the fellow men. The idea pertains to another of its attributes. But I mean that it gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich :it prevents being poor.” —Horace Man, Twelfth Annual