Excerpt from The Economy of Education
"God created man in his own image." This agrees with the cognate fact of birth, and no person can dispute the knowledge of his own existence because he cannot prove how God could create him. It is enough to know the fact of one"s own discovery, that existence was not revealed in any literal form. That is, man discovered the facts without being informed by any method of philology. He had no reason to doubt that his image was that of God, and after learning words and being told by others of similar likeness that they also had the same impression, which really did not change the fact of its being previously known. It was merely confirmatory of mutual satisfaction.
Now to be informed by the same literal vision, it is more, it is the truth and well known by educators who lack the courage to admit it in such simple terms that the poor and illiterate might readily understand that knowledge is truth or not worth knowing. The most important feature that the poor and illiterate are anxious to obtain from a teacher, is the fact withheld, that spiritual knowledge is free, but literal knowledge is extremely expensive and can only be obtained by excessive labor or an extravagant outlay of money. It is either political or commercial, and frequently both, when viewed in a general sense. It does not exclude the possibility that philanthropists are sincerely striving to float a rotten institution that can only be purified by sinking.
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