Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The School and the Schoolmaster, Vol. 1 of 2: A Manual for the Use of Teachers, Employers, Trustees, Inspectors, of Common Schools
But if the school is an essential agent of civilization, it is the Common School, that forms the appropriate agent of modern and democratic Civilization - of that civilization which aims at the greatest good of the greatest number. As this end is peculiar to the social movements of modern times, so is the instrument which it employs. Schools have always been found in the train of civilization, as the only means by which her blessings could be preserved and perpetuated; but the idea of schools which should secure to every human being, by improving his mind, a substantial share in the triumphs of Learning, Liberty, and Religion, this, it is believed, was an idea unknown to the wisest of ancient sages and states. They wrote and speculated much about education; but it was an education denied to more than four fifths of the people, who, being barbarians, were born, according to Aristotle, to be slaves, and who, as slaves.
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