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Soul Murder in the Schools 205
stowed upon the scholar by nature, is ordinarily
the result of ten or twelve school years. There
is much common-sense in the French humour-
ist’s remark. " You say that you have never
gone to school and yet you are such an idiot.’*
The cases in which school studies are not in-
jurious, but partially useful, are those where
no regular school period has been passed
through. In place of this there was a long
period of rest, or times of private instruction,
or absolutely no instruction at all, simply study
by oneself. Nearly every eminent woman in
the last fifty years has had such self-instruc-
tion, or was an irregularly instructed girl.
Knowledge so acquired, therefore, has many
serious gaps, but it has much more freshness
and breadth. One can study with far greater
scope and apply what one studies.
Yet it is still true to-day that, however
vehemently families complain about schools,
they do not see that their demands in general
education must change, before a reasonable
school system, a school system in all respects
different from the prevailing one, can come
into existence. The private schools, few in
number, that differ to a certain extent from the
ordinary system are swallows that are very
far from making a summer. Rather they have
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