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The Poison Fountain or, Anti-Parental Education
The Poison Fountain or Anti-Parental Education Author:Zachariah Montgomery Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE ANTI-PARENTAL SCHOOL SYSTEM DISSECTED AND ANALYZED. Should we wish to ascertain the exact character and properties of the waters of our gr... more »eat Pacific ocean, we would not undertake to analyze the whole ocean, for that would be an endless task, but we would take up at most a few ounces of this water, and after making a thorough analysis of it, we would announce the result as indicating the properties and character of the waters of the Pacific. So it is if we would make a careful and reliable analysis of the essential principles and elements which go to make up what is known as the Public School Sys- (em. If we were to undertake to subject to an analytical test the whole system with its entire paraphernalia of teachers, uipils, parents, school directors, school teachers, school books, school funds and school houses, as they exist throughout the Country, we should become amazed and bewildered at the magnitude of our undertaking, and would probably abandon the enterprise in despair. So let us take from this very large mass of school material a small quantity of its essential elements, just enough to be handled with ease, and examined with care, and we shall be the better able to see what is the character of the ingredients which go to make up the system. In order that you, good reader, may not accuse us of unfairness in our selection of the particular sample to be analyzed, we will allow you to choose your own material. Then cast your eyes around you among your friends and neighbors, and name for us two of the very best, purest, most intelligent, highly educated and reliable men of your acquaintance. Let them be men of your own religion, and belonging to the same political party as yourself. In a word, let them be two men to whom, in preference to all others in ...« less