Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand. Ellwood Patterson Cubberley More Quotes by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley More Quotes From Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down. Ellwood Patterson Cubberley civilization children school