In some cases like the one above, it’s possible to work within the system and simultaneously maintain your commitment to a given pose. Some instances, however, call for the more radical approach of “working the system” in-stead. Especially early in your career, when you choose to react to wobble by working the system, it’s essential that you have a very firm rationale that is grounded in theory, research, and/or the recommendations of professional organizations, so that you can justify what you’re doing and why to those in positions of power over you

When the school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guarantee of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious.

It is as rational to conceive of the locomotive or the telegraph as personal devices. The modification going on in the method and curriculum of education is as much a product of the changed social situation, and as much an effort to meet the needs of the new society that is forming, as are changes in modes of industry and commerce.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.