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Exhibit 877

The Country School of To-Morrow (Frederick T. Gates), General Education Board Occasional Papers, No. 1

Exhibit 877 ยท Foundation publication

The Country School of To-Morrow (Frederick T. Gates), General Education Board Occasional Papers, No. 1

Let us, at least, yield ourselves to the gratifications of a beautiful dream that there is. In our dream, we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand.

Essay on rural education. Page 6, under the heading 'A Vision of the Remedy,' presents an avowed dream in which the board has limitless resources and rural people yield to its molding hand, and then describes a program of agricultural, domestic and civic training for rural children 'just where they are.' The sentence is often quoted without the words before it.

Source
General Education Board (author Frederick T. Gates)
Date
1916 printing (first issue commonly dated 1913)
Quoted from
Page 6, section 'A Vision of the Remedy' (OCR of the 1916 General Education Board printing)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/countryschoolof00gate
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
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Finding POL-7.18
Primary record Frederick Gates's General Education Board paper "The Country School of To-Morrow" contains the phrase "our molding hand" on page 6 of the 1916 printing, in a passage he introduces as "a beautiful dream" of limitless resources. After the dream the essay proposes agricultural, domestic and civic training for rural children.