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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: favour the realization of such a hope or promise. It may be truly answered
that at present the training of teachers and the methods of education are
very imperfect, and therefore that we cannot judge of the future by the
present. When more of our youth are trained in the best literatures, and
in the best parts of them, their minds may be expected to have a larger
growth. They will have more interests, more thoughts, more material for
conversation; they will have a higher standard and begin to think for
themselves. The number of persons who will have the opportunity of
receiving the highest education through the cheap press, and by the help of
high schools and colleges, may increase tenfold. It is likely that in
every thousand persons there is at least one who is far above the average
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