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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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Soul Murder in the Schools 211
may be made possible. The common school,
so arranged, is perhaps the most important
means to solve definitely the problem of mor-
ality, the woman question, the marriage ques-
tion, the labour question, in less one-sided and
more human ways. From this point of view
the establishment of the common school is much
more than a pedagogical question; it is the
vital question of our social order.
Men and women, upper and lower classes,
are walking on different sides of a wall. They
can stretch their hands over it; the important
thing to be done is to break the wall down.
The school, as described above, is the first
breach in this wall.
A school like this would be like leaven. The
many never reform the few; it is the few who
gradually introduce reforms for the many.
Because the few have strong enough dissatis-
faction with present defects, courage great
enough to show their disgust, a belief in the
new truths real enough, they are ready to pre-
pare the ground for the future.
Such a school must be guided by the same
principle which has humanised morality and
law in other spheres. It must consider indi-
vidual peculiarities. Personal freedom will
thus have as few hindrances as possible to ob-

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