By Belle Lindner Israels
(From Introduction to “The Upholstered Cage.”)
We know now that the girl without occupation is the girl without mental growth.
Book VII — Education
Education
Soul Murder in the Schools
By Ellen Key
(From “The Century of the Child.”14)
(See page 143)
Any one who would attempt the task of felling 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 mistakes, where each point is open to attack, but where each attack fails because of the inadequate means at the reformer’s command.
Notes
14 J. G. Stokes Co., Pub.