Thoughts On Public Schools a Sermon Preached At Suttons Hospital in the Chart
Thoughts On Public Schools a Sermon Preached At Suttons Hospital in the Chart
Edwin Palmer
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According to this ideal, a public school is a place in which all the virtues of the natural man — if not all the Christian graces — are de- veloped by the conditions under which the boys associate together. Courage, purity, honesty, truthfulness, are en- forced by a public opinion stronger than the rules of masters ; a healthy rivalry in athletic and intellectual pursuits draws out and perfects the powers of mind and body ; daily intercoui'se with superiors, inferiors, and equals, removes alike... shyness and forwardness, self- assertion and rusticit}'. Of course, such an ideal is not wholly without justifica- tion in fact. There are tendencies at work, in all good 8 THOUGHTS ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. schools, towards the production of the several results which it brings together into so attractive a ""picture. But there are other tendencies which conflict with them, and often gain such a superiority over them, that the picture becomes thoroughly unreal. Boys are not better than men, any more than savages are better than the natives of a civilized country.
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