The rise of dictatorship caused other nations to feel threatened and become defensive. The fear of being taken over by the totalitarian, power seeking dictators was real and drove armies to grow and the public to support strengthening borders.
Horace Mann (1848, as cited in Education and Social Inequity, n.d.) succinctly states, “Education, then, beyond all other divides of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery.”
