"...our political democracy depends upon the reconstitution of our
schools. Our schools are not turning out young people prepared for the
high office and the duties of citizenship in a democratic republic. Our
political institutions cannot thrive, they may not even survive, if we
do not produce a greater number of thinking citizens, from whom some
statesmen of the type we had in the eighteenth century might eventually
emerge. We are, indeed, a nation at risk, and nothing but radical reform
of our schools can save us from impending disaster... Whatever the
price... the price we will pay for not doing it will be much greater."
- Mortimer Adler,
Reforming Education: No Quick Fix
