The Curse of Education

The Curse of Education'The author's contempt for the time-serving politician, who in this country has, unfortunately, come...
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Author: Gorst, Harold Edward,1868-1950
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Language: English
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The Curse of Education

The Curse of Education

$9.99

The Curse of Education

$9.99
Author: Gorst, Harold Edward,1868-1950
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Curse of Education

'The author's contempt for the time-serving politician, who in this country has, unfortunately, come to count for so much in all governmentsTory or Liberalwill be shared by the thinking portion of his fellow countrymen.'The Financial News. In calling this little book 'The Curse of Education,' I trust that I shall not be misunderstood to disparage culture. The term 'education' is used, for want of a better word, to express the conventional mode of teaching and bringing up children, and of educating youth in this and other civilized countries. It is with education systems, with the universal method of cramming the mind with facts, and particularly with the manufacture of uniformity and mediocrity by subjecting every individual to a common process, regardless of his natural bent, that I have chiefly to find fault. At a moment when the country is agitated with questions of educational reform, I thought it might be useful to draw attention to what I believe to be a fact, namely, that the foundations of all existing education systems are absolutely[Pg vi] false in principle; and that teaching itself, as opposed to natural development and self-culture, is the greatest obstacle to human progress that social evolution has ever had to encounter. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 29630
Author: Gorst, Harold Edward
Release Date: Aug 7, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

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