When I think of the hours they compelled
me to waste on the dead languages, when I
mght have mastered French, it makes my
blood boil. To this very day I resent that
stupidity, in my teachers.
What would I have taught, if I were King?
W ere I the over-lord, the boys and girls should
be trained to think. The cramming process
would be abolished. I 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 w T e
mould brick. Fie 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
boy going to be, when a man? Teach him
what he needs to know, in order to be JW.
What is the girl going tq be, when a
woman? Teach her what she needs to know,
in order to be that.
