Carl William Ackerman

“ Mexico can be a friend or a foe of the United States and she has more to gain through friendship than through enmity.
Within fifty years from to-day Mexico can take her place among the greatest nations of the world if Mexico is willing to seek the co-operation of the great Republics and Democracies of the world. Mexico, as a Republic, owes a duty to her sister nations as well as to herself. Opportunity knocks at the doors of the Republic. The battle for Civilisation, for Humanity, for International Right and for Democracy is being fought throughout the world. ”

“ Ignorance is at the bottom of banditry. Ignorance is what enables unscrupulous men to rob the people of land and wages. Ignorance is what keeps the peons dressed in rags.
Mexico needs a public school system from one end of the country to the other, and in establishing such a system it should be understood by Mexico that substantial progress can be expected only by calling foreign educators to Mexico to superintend the work. Mexico needs great educational directors, such as the state superintendents of public instruction in some of our states. ”

“ Mexico needs men like the Presidents of our great universities to help her build up an educational system.
Mexico needs an educational system that will begin not only with the children but with the men and women of to-day. They, too, must be taught to read and write and think. Mexico needs technical public school education for men. Think of the hundreds of thousands of children in Mexico who know nothing about schools!
To develop her great resources Mexico needs foreign brains and foreign capital. The United States needed it in the early days of her existence. ”