This lead article in the March 1908 issue of the American Missionary Association's (AMA) monthly magazine outlines the type of educational model it wished to promote. This philosophy is described at the end of this article:
"Where schools are, the converts multiply; where converts increase in numbers, there the schools enlarge their scope; where schools develop, pupils become teachers and ministers for their own people. This is salvation; for every race coming out of darkness into light must have its own teachers and preachers."