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. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... VII THE INTELLECTUALS AND THE PEOPLE IF there is one thing which the present cata-clysmic conflict in Europe is going to teach it will be the lesson that universal education and cul-ture are not the panacea for all evils that we have assumed them to be until now. When Prussia in 1717 for the first ...
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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. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... VII THE INTELLECTUALS AND THE PEOPLE IF there is one thing which the present cata-clysmic conflict in Europe is going to teach it will be the lesson that universal education and cul-ture are not the panacea for all evils that we have assumed them to be until now. When Prussia in 1717 for the first time put the secondary schools under State control, and still more when it in 1794 proclaimed that no educational institution could be founded without the consent of the State, it was generally accepted as a truism that Prussia led the world in educational matters and that the great-ness of Prussia was proportionate to its interest and control of its schools. But if we cautiously examine the purposes of the Government in foster-ing the institutions of learning, we find that, in spite of the purely cultural effects which the very thorough educational institutions have had, the in-tent has been to put education under the control of the State only for its own advantage, and not for the unselfish development of individual powers. Every advance in the great system of German schools was conditioned by political causes. Com-pulsory education was first made absolute after 142 the disaster of Jena, and the revolutionary movement of 1848 was no sooner crushed than all teachers were declared to be civil servants, thus virtually becoming bureaucratic officers of the State. Again, after the Franco-Prussian war, in 1872, Prussia emphasized once more the absolute right of the State to control all its schools. German philosophers and schoolmen have been busy expounding to the world the superiority of intellectual Germany to any other country, because of the thorough-going methods employed by it in the education of the masses. Their conviction was, no doubt, ..
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