For no reformer dreams that this perfectly sensible and practicable program will be carried out until there has been some revolutionary change in society.

"I know that some people will say that it is impossible to increase public expenditure in the total, and therefore impossible to increase it for the schools," says Dr.
Eliot.

"I deny both allegations.

Public expenditure has been greatly increased within the last thirty years, and so has school expenditure" (written in 1902).

But Dr.Eliot doubtless realizes that what he advocates for the present moment, the expenditure of five times as much as we now invest in public schools, at the present rate of progress, might not be accomplished in a century, and that by that time society might well have attained a degree of development which would demand five or ten times as much again.