Moral Education; Its Laws and Methods

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. THE EDUCATIONAL CRISIS. Prosperity and progress dependent on industrial education and the prosperity of the industrial classes.--Common-school education does not prevent social degeneracy and crime.--Need for a better education.--Criticisms of R. G. White upon New York schools and their demoralizing influence.--Miseducation of American girls.-- Schools unfavorable to industry and integrity. --Their intellectual training inefficient.--Industrial education practicable and cheap, as proved by the industrial schools of Paris.--Belgian schools.--Success of the Hampton Institute.-- Education among the Choctaws.--Self-support by industrial students.--All industrial improvement sacrificed by war.--Education has failed in intellectual development.--Fostering neither reason nor invention, it leaves mankind creatures of habit and prejudice.--Hostility to higher teachers in religion and philosophy and to unrecognized genius.--Education does not make valuable citizens.--Our educational system not attractive to the lower classes.--Testimony against the moral influences of education.--Benefits of industrial schools.--Attested by Pennsylvania Legislature.--Society degenerating in sphere of education.--Degeneracy shown in England by diminished size of heads.--Great increase of suicide and insanity.--Statistics of the vast number of teachers and the large endowments of colleges and universities.--Great increase of educational expenditures.-- Increase of education and increase of misery.--Increase of insanity in European countries, in New York and Massachusetts. --The increase coinciding with education.--Personal degeneracy: half the recruits of European armies unfit for service.-- Increased mortality and diminished longevity during the...