15 2 / 2012

questionableadvice:

~ Pros and Cons: A Newspaper Reader’s and Debater’s Guide to the Leading Controversies of the Day, John Bertram Askew, 1899(click to enlarge)“Con: (3) Compulsory Education teaches them enough to be able to read “penny dreadfuls” and other injurious literature, but creates no desire for higher knowledge.”

I mean, really the best part of this is “and factory work does them no harm”.

questionableadvice:

~ Pros and Cons: A Newspaper Reader’s and Debater’s Guide to the Leading Controversies of the Day, John Bertram Askew, 1899
(click to enlarge)

“Con: (3) Compulsory Education teaches them enough to be able to read “penny dreadfuls” and other injurious literature, but creates no desire for higher knowledge.”

I mean, really the best part of this is “and factory work does them no harm”.