The Children's Era: The Secret Garden (Sentences 13-27) Summary

It's So Secret It Doesn't Exist

  • Sanger says that if we're going to make the world a beautiful garden, we need some gardening lessons.
  • You know—sunlight, air, water, soil. The stuff plants and children need to grow.
  • But you know what we don't want in a garden? Weeds.
  • Again, Sanger insists, we need lessons because there are no gardeners here, just some goofballs trying to find pots for this excess of weeds we can't get rid of.
  • And by weeds, she means poor kids.
  • Don't get Sanger wrong: we're well-meaning folks, but nobody can deal with this many poor kids.