Mr. Martí's Classes

"Whenever, a teachers convention meets and tries to find out how it can cure the ills of society, there is simply one answer; the school has but one way to cure the ills of society and that is by making men intelligent.  To make men intelligent, the school has again but one way, and that is, first and last, to teach them to read, write and count.  And if the school fails to do that, and tries beyond that to do something for which school is not adapted, it not only fails in its own functions, but it fails in all other attempted functions.  Because no school as such can organize industry, or settle the matter of wage and income, can found homes or furnish parents, can establish justice or make a civilized world."

 W.E.B. Du Bois