The ideal of the democracy we are trying to achieve is higher personality in all the mass of the people.

The method of democracy so far as we can see is education, perfected and universalized, by which all the children of each generation may be developed physically, mentally, morally, and vocationally to their utmost excellence and power.

The family, as we have inherited it, is so far the central nursery and school in this development.

So far in the history of the race or in its present social manifestation no rival institution, even the formal school, offers an adequate substitute for the family in this beginning of the educative process.

The intimate and vital care and nurture of the individual life still depends for the mass of the people upon the private, monogamic, family.