Gates explicitly imagines rural people yielding with perfect docility to a molding hand. The passage concerns a visionary program for rural education and does not contain the later slogan about classrooms being factories for manageable minds.
In our dream, we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk.
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Gates explicitly imagines rural people yielding with perfect docility to a molding hand. The passage concerns a visionary program for rural education and does not contain the later slogan about classrooms being factories for manageable minds. Bearing on the claim: partly supports. Verification note: Original Library of Congress scan and OCR text opened through Internet Archive. The quotation is authentic; its rural and explicitly dream-framed context should be retained.