In the mid 19th century, educator Henry Barnard wrote about schools: "No public edifice more deserves, or will better repay, the skill, labor, and expense.. for here the health, tastes, manners, minds and morals of each successive generation of children will be, in a great measure, determined for time and eternity."

"No where does an architect have a better chance to display his skill then in the planning of school buildings, and no where does he perform a job of greater importance for public welfare."    - Talbot Hamlin

Building Blocks: An Elementary School for NYC