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CHAPTER V
SOUL MURDER IN THE SCHOOLS
Any one who would attempt the task of
feUing a virgin forest with a penknife would
probably feel the same paralysis of despair
that the reformer feels when confronted with
existing school systems. The latter finds an
impassable thicket of folly, prejudice, and mis-
takes, where each point is open to attack, but
where each attack fails because of the inade-
quate means at the reformer’s command.
The modern school has succeeded in doing
something which, according to the law of
physics, is impossible: the annihilation of once
existent matter. The desire for knowledge,
the capacity for acting by oneself, the gift of
observation, all qualities children bring with
them to school, have, as a rule, at the close of
the school period disappeared. They have not
been transformed into actual knowledge or
interests. This is the result of children
spending almost the whole of their life from
the sixth to the eighteenth year at the school
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