The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-08-06
THE BOURGEOIsIE POIsONs OUR CHILDREN.

ILL.,
THE BOURGEOISIE POISONS OUR CHILDREN.
The governing class does only kill children physically
$50 poons their young minds Especially revolutionary times
bougeoe redoubes its to estrange the children OF
proetariat from their class get them opposition their
n struggling parents brothers sisters During such times
schools all private and public institutions become strongnods
counterrvouonary propaganda and training and it must
RELY admitted that the governing class knows well how to In
use the young fresh minds the Of naonasm and
nonarchsm of bourgeois morals and sentiments.
To prove this let skip the of reader use IN
bur public schools They filled with religious stories are over
Flowing with false and lying petty bourgeois morality Take Tor
headings reader being used in the Berlin district
schools The Lord everywhere the Lord knows everything the
Lord thinks Of all things praise the Lord at all times the Lord
and His angels are guarding you.
Does such stuff nauseate revolutionary poearlan
Really the Lord has indeed thought of everything especially OF
His proarans out of work and hungry consumpe children
Proletaan parens How much longer will permit of these
lies being dshed out to your children? Will nacvey stand
by and your helpless children mbued with slave morals sugar
coated with the religious spirit of inactivity Read for instance the
following story taken at random out of the reader mentioned
above headed The County Fair rich gives money
number of girls for which they to buy what they like
When their return they have to show the results OF their shop
ping the kindly spender appears that only of the girls
has bought something useful" prayer book and distaf At
this the rich pleased Taking the girls hands she
addresses her follows glad dear that in your
young years you think of and prayer BY buying foolish
things the others shown plainly that they concerned with
nothing but pretty dresses and other vain things that they
think nothing whatever of piousness and ndustriousne
Do we need to add word of criticism Note the typical petty
bourgeois spirit The rich beneacress The praise Of
frugay The poor girl being patronsed The point Work and
pray live hay you will eat by and by the sky Take note
cf the matter with which and rich beng
confronted here the rich being trusted with the role guaran
Stories that description could repeat by the dozen out Of
any reader w,
That is the spirit dominating our primary schools to VII
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spite OF the socaed republic and its socastic ministers
great part of the lectures history still devoted to the wo
OF the dynases to the gofcaon of the imperial and royal
desters The heroic Kaser The benevolent Mother the Cou
y The whole world appears be the handwork of inspired
princes politicians and generals The history the development
OF mankind but chain of and wise legislative measures
stress being laid upon the necessity obedience and loyalty
to crown the whole, chauvnsm
The singing lessons also consist of nothing but religion and
patriotism Here elsewhere the of the children are being
filled exclusively with thoughts the Father in the glorious land
above the sky and the substitutes EARTH the kaiser and the
various kings And the composition lessons And the rs of the
teachers male and female against the revolution against the COM
munlsts against the worker STRIKE against Soviet Russia
Those out OF work being depicted lazy work. the
children of the better situated the reaconare are being
favoed anyone Industrious and modest surely get ahead
today as
Proetaan parents Have you ever thought of what
to have all this advise put into practice 1t is to make your child
rem seek the favour OF the bosses later they prepare
proaran children for the dirty calling scabs and blaceps of
the lackey and oopgeons of the White Guards The whole
school system permeated with bourgeois egosm with that hate
full spirit of greeness and avace which forms the moral basis
for the captastc order and which the bourgeose calls he
competitive system One look into the arithmetic book of your
children will show that the whole captalc deology is hid
den between its lines and numbers nothing else is to be
learned there than how buy sell and how to figure out
percentage for usury
The school teaches the children nothing about the true ua
on OF the present day society," of the conflict interests between
capitalism and oetarat about the economic and social per
specve of all and revolutions Consciously overlooking the
results OF the social upheava the school still teaching the time
worn fairy tales OF church and naonaism thereby nstinp
dangerous illusions into the minds of the unsuspctng young
The school which is to prepare for life does prepare the
young poearan for his life but for that of erve subject of
his exploiters. 4,s
lhe school, however but part of the atmosphere the child
is being brought in The poearan child passes away great
part OF his life the yards and the streets The street of the
capastc meropo not only the great panorama life passing
ceaseessy before the child also the time and mainly
SO in the proletaan quarters evy smelling gutter through
wcn all scum OF the capac society by Only seldom
does the child come to know here Of praran solidarity and
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