A NOVEL VIEW OF EDUCATION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1601, 5 July 1887, Page 4

A NOVEL VIEW OF EDUCATION

("Taranaki Herald.") A theory gaining ground at Home as to tbe cause of the universal depression is <\ novel one, being no leas than the socalled education system m force. A work called •• B itain'o Slaves," by Me George Challis, ia largely quoted by the Press, nnd the l^ook, being widely circulated, is doirg muoh to convince people that school teaching jb b?ing carried to too great an extent amongst the poorer classes. The writer 6,15 v, "No one knaw* how much depends upon onr little workers ; tie their hands from helping each other, their parents and themselves, end then ycu will begin to see the t ffect of compulsory education. In a large family, wber9 many liltl" hands work, the hbor falls Hghfly. Father's morey buya food, one child's earnings pays the rent, another's buya aboee, stockings Ac , whilst a third helps with the household work and the universal baby, selling the mother* bands free to sew, bake, and wash. Tie all these children's hands by nuking them keep at tchool, and their parents will be slaves. It reducts the Incomes of the poorer claeaeß ; and if working men have lesu money to spend m the wareß, merchandise, and produce of the country, the shopkeepers J Bnd trarieapeople will placa scantier orders with the merchants and manufactnrers. There will be slackness of work, which will cause masters to employ fewer bands, ranking a further decrease m the incomes of the already impoverished families." Mr Challls puts into the mouth of one of his characters, for tbe book we refer to is written as a novel, the following words, which are very true : " People can live very well upon plenty of money and education, and no money won't fill people's stomaebs. You see so much education puts a Btop to work, nnd wl en , work etop3 money stops, and when money stops food nnd clothing stop. Everyone alive cannot get a living with education, /here are many losiog their time with ' education who will never need it.^and don't value it ; acd it would be et^nor look out for the world at large if it was not so. God is wiser than man m ordering it co, otherwise no one would work. Keeping children from work so many years and filling their heads with rubbish, certainly is unfitting there for hard coarse work which must be done The cruel law of compulsory education robs parents who are poor of the assistance or! their children and is making every one poorer. It cripples the poor man as well as the shopkeeper. To a workiDg farmer it can be spelt m four lttters-Ruin 1" It is a bold subject to lake up m the manner the author hae, but the book being an interesting one, is finding many readers,

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