Excerpt from John Bull His Schools: A Book for Parents, Rate-Payers, and Men of Business
Why is it that the education question in England has drifted away from the field of calm intelligent deliberation into an arena of barren and bitter controversy? Evidently it is because the main issue has become overloaded and obscured by side issues, some of them irrelevant, some fictitious, and some absolutely perverted. Self-elected authorities and would-be experts have seized control of the discussion and are driving it round and round in a vicious circle. The sectary, the faddist, the doctrinaire, the politician, and the professional pedagogue have all laid violent hands on it and would fain use it for ends of their own.
While on the one hand education suffers from the excessive zeal of false friends, on the other it suffers still more from the apathy of those who have the deepest and most direct interest in it.
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