If its action is aimed at the collective purpose, it may learn much even from its mistakes.

No process of merely individual education can accomplish the work of collective education, because the nation is so much more than a group of individuals.

Individuals can be "uplifted" without "uplifting" the nation, because the nation has an individuality of its own, which cannot be increased without the consciousness of collective responsibilities and the collective official attempt to redeem them.

The processes of national and individual education should, of course, parallel and supplement each other.

The individual can do much to aid national education by the single-minded and intelligent realization of his own specific purposes; but all individual successes will have little more than an individual interest unless they frequently contribute to the work of national construction.
The nation can do much to aid individual education; but the best aid within its power is to offer to the individual a really formative and inspiring opportunity for public service.