For him the practical questions are: How can the improvement best be brought about?
and, How much may it amount to?
As a matter of fact, Americans have always had the liveliest and completest faith in the process of individual and social improvement and in accepting the assumption, I am merely adhering to the deepest and most influential of American traditions.

The better American has continually been seeking to "uplift" himself, his neighbors, and his compatriots.

But he has usually favored means of improvement very different from those suggested hereinbefore.

The real vehicle of improvement is education.

It is by education that the American is trained for such democracy as he possesses; and it is by better education that he proposes to better his democracy.