The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-03-28
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Protestants When will you awake?
Short Talks TO YOUNG Mem

teaches the children whole lot of stuff
that is never OF any practical benefit to them
1t does not teach them those things which
would be Of the greatest service to the average
man or woman.
Our school-teachers tread in one anothers
footprints, from generation to generation.
and no Thomas Jefferson, or Rabeais arises
to propose sensible system. It is absolutely
tragic to see our little boys and girls taxing
their undeveloped brains with physiology,
botany algebra, geometry, and the dead
languages: How many of these pupils will
ever be able to use what they may learn in
those studies? Not one in thousand. Only
experts will need that kind of knowledge;
and no expert made in the common
schools and colleges. Experts are graduated
from institutions which make that their
special business
1t is highly desirable that my physician
shall know all about the mysteries of phys
iology, so that he can doctor me when I'm
sick, but [ don't care button about those
mysteries, myself.
Ii had my way about it, the young people
would be well grounded in thorough edlrca-
ton IN English. If thew were able to take on
any other language at all, it would be French,
Or German. These cranks who cling to Latin
and Greek ought all be arrested, straight
Jacketed and transported to the most desolate
island of the most distant sea, there to safely
be confined at hard labor for the remainder
of their natural lives.
When [ think of the hours they compelled
me to waste on the dead languages, when I
night have mastered French it makes my
blood boil. To this very day I resent that
stupidity, in my teachers.
What would [ have taught, if I were King?
were [ the overload, the boys and girls should
be trained to think. The examining process
would be abolished. [ would draw out the
individuality of each student The brick
kiln system would be relegated to the outer
darkness, God never meant that boys and
girls should be moulded, in one CASTE as we
mould brick. He who made every leaf to
differ from every other: He who made every
grain Of sand to differ from every other: He
who painted differently the hues of every
flower and the plumage of every bird: He
who sowed the skies with the myriad stars,
which all differ in their radiance and magni-
tude: He who made no two rivers alike, no
two oceans alike, no two worlds alike, surely
never meant that the God given individuality
OF Human beings-created a little lower than
the angels-should be trodden out in the wine
press of an unnatural system of education
The schools should teach the things which
pertain to actual, ordinary life. What Is the
bog going to be, aohen q man? Teach him
what he needs to know, in order to be that
What is the girl going to- be, when
woman? Teach her what she needs to know,
in order to be that
Why in the world should the average
pupil, who intends to lead the average life,
be vexed with the study of algebra, geometry
and astronomy? Why should the average
girl, who has no intention of becoming a
trained nurse, or doctor, have her mind
cluttered up with physiology? s..s b..g..
It's all pack of foolishness. Millions of