Our Public Schools (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Our Public Schools It is not our purpose to decry, or unduly to exalt our public schools. We propose rather to inquire what views the pamphlets whose titles we have given above, and others of like character, take of the subject. What indications do they furnish that the boys and girls resorting to these schools, year after year, are in the way to become such men and women as our country deserves to have? In prosecuting this inquiry the first point to determine is, what kind and degree of education we are bound to give at the public expense. There is no saying more familiar to our ears than that the safety and permanency of our institutions depend on the general intelligence of the people. We choose persons to fill certain offices, not that they may guide us, but that they may obey us. The theory of our government is, that the intelligence, the virtue and the patriotism of the country reside in the people, and that when we call out sundry persons to make laws, and others to interpret them, and others still to execute them, they are really our servants, though we are accustomed, for some reason, to call them rulers. Standing at the polls in some of our chief city districts at a popular election, we shall scarcely recognize the dignity, independence and thoughtfulness of men having large interests at stake and looking for the most capable persons to take charge of them. If men of that description are there in any considerable number, it must be in deep disguise. To fit them for just this duty of selecting public servants, with intelligence and discrimination, is one of the prominent purposes of our free schools. We can not train them to vote for Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones, but we can train them to inquire and judge of this, among other things - whether any of the Smiths or the Joneses are proper persons to vote for, instead of following the dictation of a clique, whose first and last purpose is to serve themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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