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Soul Murder in the Schools 207
But just as certain simple chemical ele-
ments are contained in all nourishment, there
are certain simple elements of knowledge that
make up the foundation of all higher forms of
learning. Reading and writing one’s own
language, the elements of numbers, geography,
natural science, and history, must be required
by the schools, as the obligatory basis for ad-
vanced independent study.
The elementary school beginning with the
age of nine to ten years, I regard as the real
general school. The system of instruction
must assume that the children have breadth,
repose, comprehensiveness, and capacity for
individual action. All these qualities are de-
stroyed by the present " hare and hound
"
system and by its endless abstractions. Such
are the results of course readings, multiplicity
of subjects, and formalism, all defects that
have passed from the boys’ schools into the
girls’ schools, from the elementary schools into
the people’s schools. They too are burdened
by all these faults, which, though deplored by
most people, can only be cured by radical
reform.
The instruction must be arranged in groups,
certain subjects placed among the earlier
stages of study while others are put aside for
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