Excerpt from Report on Education, 1880, Vol. 8
"Considerons l'espece humaine comme un individu que la duree infinie de son existence permet de rapprocher sans cesse d'un type parfait, dont son etat primitif ne donnait meme pas l'idee." - Cabanis.
I. Introduction. An inquiry into the conditions of popular education in several countries can only serve to furnish the elements of comparison between what is done at home and what is done abroad, in view of improving home education. In this light, the writer looked at the school-collections exhibited in Vienna, but soon perceived that the most important data were missing, - some not being susceptible of transportation or of representation by specimens, others having been intentionally withdrawn. Withdrawn! why?
To educate children for themselves is rare in Europe, and it is considered rather Quixotic. The youth of the people are merchantable commodities, soon to be credited to the party which puts its stamp upon them. Therefore, where they are worth having, they are picked up as eagerly as nuggets. Priests pretend to teach them to think, only to impose upon them a belief which implies obedience to their craft; Kaisers claim their direction, not to elevate them, but to put them among their droves of subjects; bourgeois and manufacturers give them a minimum of instruction, just sufficient to insure their working dependence, and to qualify their own sons to be fed at the public expense; while the workingmen themselves - demoralized by such examples - put their apprentices at menial employment, and cheat them out of their rightful professional training.
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