Chapter XXI

EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM -- HISTORIC.

_EGYPT AND GREECE._

Fundamental Propositions. -- Selfishness the Source of Social Evil;
Subjective Education the Source of Selfishness and the Cause of
Contempt of Labor; and Social Disintegration the Result of Contempt of
Labor and the Useful Arts. -- The First Class-distinction -- the
Strongest Man ruled; his First Rival, the Ingenious Man. --
Superstition. -- The Castes of India and Egypt -- how came they about?
-- Egyptian Education based on Selfishness. -- Rise of Egypt -- her
Career; her Fall; Analysis thereof. -- She Typifies all the Early
Nations: Force and Rapacity above, Chains and Slavery below. -- Their
Education consisted of Selfish Maxims for the Government of the Many
by the Few, and Government meant the Appropriation of the Products of
Labor. -- Analysis of Greek Character -- its Savage Characteristics.
-- Greek Treachery and Cruelty. -- Greek Venality. -- Her Orators
accepted Bribes. -- Responsibility of Greek Education and Philosophy
for the Ruin of Greek Civilization. -- Rectitude wholly left out of
her Scheme of Education. -- Plato’s Contempt of Matter: it led to
Contempt of Man and all his Works. -- Greek Education consisted of
Rhetoric and Logic; all Useful Things were hence held in Contempt. 247