Chapter XXV

EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM -- HISTORIC.

_AMERICA._

An Old Civilization in a New Country. -- Old Methods in a New System
of Schools. -- Sordid Views of Education. -- The highest Aim
Money-getting. -- Herbert Spencer on the English Schools. -- Same
Defects in the American Schools. -- Maxims of Selfishness. -- The
Cultivation of Avarice. -- Political Incongruities. -- Negroes
escaping from Slavery called Fugitives from Justice. -- The Results of
Subjective Educational Processes. -- Climatic Influences alone saved
America from becoming a Slave Empire. -- Illiteracy. -- Abnormal
Growth of Cities. -- Failure of Justice. -- Defects of Education shown
in Reckless and Corrupt Legislation. -- Waste of an Empire of Public
Land. -- Henry D. Lloyd’s History of Congressional Land Grants. -- The
Growth and Power of Corporations. -- The Origin of large Fortunes,
Speculations. -- Old Social Forces producing old Social Evils. --
Still America is the Hope of the World. -- The Right of Suffrage in
the United States justifies the Sentiment of Patriotism. -- Let
Suffrage be made Intelligent and Virtuous, and all Social Evils will
yield to it; and all the Wealth of the Country is subject to the Draft
of the Ballot for Education. -- The Hope of Social Reform depends upon
a complete Educational Revolution. 307