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Lamil:enandhewelielatidticayitutThe Banner does not think that it is for the best interests of the white race that the compulsory education bill should be passed and for that reason is opposed to it, and we do not think that the present legislature will be silly enough to pas* such a law, that only a few demand. In our opin ion it will be a long time before there will be a law passed forcing compulsory education upon an un willing people, and which if enac ted, will enable the blacks to qualify as voters and thus endanger white supremacy. The Picayune of a recent date presented sound reasons why the compulsory educational bill should meet with opposition, and in support of its argument, quotes Mr. Gustave le Bon, a distinguished educator as follows :“Education as we have it in France and as I have been led to understand you have it in America is nothing but a pestilential breeding ground for anarchy and socialism, an education in discon tent instead of an education in duty to society. Education as a cure for social ill is a fetich, a sociological w’ill-o'-the-wisp.*Tho idea that the criminal classes are recruited from the uneducated is absolutely false,” he continued: “In France we haveperhaps 250 illiterates out of 1,000 criminals, and the greatest criminals are in nearly every instance men of fine education, I have examined a few statistics since coming to your countr.v several weeks ago, and I find that your illiterate criminals or those who might be classed as ignorant will not average more than 22 per cent, of the entire criminal class, so far as my researches have extended.“The public has been led to believe that education is the panacea for all social ills. This is by no means true. The fault lies in the popular idea of education. Education has been held to be a mere gathering of knowledge by too many educators. A boy is put through so many books in our lycees so many courses in your public schools and he Is educated.Socialists and anarchists are in nearly every case so-called educated men. They have acquired knowledge and discontent. They have not acquired any correspond-ng idea of their duties to the social whole or that self-effacement which distinguishes the strongest characters. In nearly every case your educated socialists or anarchist is an egotist of a pronounced type. Take our own M. Juares. He likes nothing better than to see his name in print.“Education which develops vanity at the expense of character and a sense of duty is no education. Education which develops e latent initiative in men is the true education and those of us in France who think we owe something to society as well as ourselves are striving to overthrow the fetich of popular education and substitute the education of a man for the State.”To 1 of ol isV pan for call to sV lati whi ledf ject cha in o bill majIc chai in lt;call ticei cers thin sive our It proc time the cess be s W raak subj buil gene this beer ject*TOTh 9pec pres;Th ect lt;the f marl arrai a site builci Afi Ache two prop* mark title * to rej cailei ter. comn ahom Mo ondei Attor ordin to pu there* ing, a ring c thous The sion c by M onded cil ad June ; furthe J. C. JAnworth
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The Saint Mary Banner
Franklin, Louisiana, US
Sat, Jun 02, 1906
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