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Soul Murder in the Schools 209
may be heard the following: That while the
state refuses to take initiative in school reform,
no one would dare to embark on a road which
makes the future of their children so uncertain.
In the meantime children must be allowed to
learn what all others learn. When the state
has taken the first step, the parents would be
willing they say to follow with remarkable
eagerness.
What, I ask, has been always the right way
to carry out reforms? There must be first an
active revolt against existing evils. This par-
ticular revolt is yet not sufficiently supported,
especially on the part of parents. The
children themselves have begun to feel the need
of protest, and, if not earlier, I hope that when
the present generation of school children be-
come fathers, mothers, and teachers, a reform
will come about.
’No one can expect a system to be changed,
until those who disapprove of It show that they
are in earnest, show that they are taking upon
themselves the sacrifices necessary to protect
themselves from the unhappy results of the
system. Families complain of the excessive
aggregation of subjects, and yet they con-
stantly burden the school with new subjects,
even when these subjects are things the fam-
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