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wealth, and such and such a one, a great statesman. 

 Now, these persons are in a position to take life 

 easy. They have wealth to spend for the employ- 

 ment of labor and need to do little of such thing 

 themselves." 



In other words, the view-point of the school has 

 been radically wrong. We have been advancing 

 the idea that education enables one to get out of 

 work, whereas we should have been urging that 

 education of the right sort enables one to get into 

 work. That is, it means enlarged capacity for work 

 and service and proportionately enlarged joy and con- 

 tentment in the performance of worthy work of any 

 nature whatsoever. Let rural parents once incul- 

 cate the last-named point of view upon then* grow- 

 ing boys and girls and the attitude of the latter 

 toward the school and its tasks will be likewise radi- 

 cally changed. 



ALL HAVE A RIGHT TO CULTURE 



And then, a second question we need to ask our- 

 selves is, Whom is education for ? or, What classes 

 should have the benefits of it ? A close comparison 

 of the school ideals of twenty-five years ago with the 

 most progressive ones of to-day reveals a surprising 

 situation. Without seemingly realizing the fact, 

 we continued for generations in this country to tax 

 ourselves heavily for the purpose of supporting 

 schools almost exclusively in behalf of the so-called 



