This again shows the advantage of individual management, in the spending as well as in the accumulating of wealth, but this school will attain its highest good, in so far as it incites the ambition to provide other schools from public funds.

The town of Zurich possesses a magnificent polytechnic institute, secured by the vote of the entire people and supported from public taxes.

Every man who voted for it is interested that his child should enjoy its benefits, and, of course, the voluntary attendance must be larger than in a school accepted as a gift to the community.
In the educational efforts of model employers, as in other attempts toward social amelioration, one man with the best of intentions is trying to do what the entire body of employees should have undertaken to do for themselves.

The result of his efforts will only attain its highest value as it serves as an incentive to procure other results by the community as well as for the community.
There are doubtless many things which the public would never demand unless they were first supplied by individual initiative, both because the public lacks the imagination, and also the power of formulating their wants.

Thus philanthropic effort supplies kindergartens, until they become so established in the popular affections that they are incorporated in the public school system.