AN AMERICAN VIEW OF EDUCATION.
iHE perils of education are alarming. ] mean "education without moral and industrial training'. Teachers and professors have but little to do with this. Their sole business is to teach from the book.«. If the pupil stands well in mathematics, in Greek and Latin and loiric and rhetoric and philosophy, he is doing splendidly. That is the big thing. In fact, it is everything so far as the teacher is couoerned; and almost everything with the parents. The result is that thousands of boys are being educated as experts in indolence, in avoiding work, and in many cases they resort to forgery and embezzlement and obtaining money under false pretences. It is an opeii secret at the North that education increases crime, not just a little but immensely. As illiteracy decreases crime increases in a geometrical ratio. They are almost met with tho startling question which is the best, comparative ignorance with honesty, or high culture with dishonesty ?— Atlanta Constitution.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2516, 25 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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164AN AMERICAN VIEW OF EDUCATION. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2516, 25 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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