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BISHOP CANDLER SAYS
WE SHOULD
He Questions Wisdom of Compulsory Educa¬
tion In Strong Article. Education Only
A Means Not An End In Itself.
By BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER.
It is very difficult for human nature
to maintain its equilibrium. The best
people often run to injuries extremes
while aiming at the best of ends; they
magnify out of all proportion the thing
at which they aim. and lose sight of
other things of equal importance which
they are sacrificing to achieve their ob¬
ject.
This is especially true in our country
just now in the matter of education.
We emphasize the importance of edu¬
cation ; and this we ought to do. Its
importance cun hardly be overstated.
But there are other things equally im
portant, if not more so.
Education is a means to an end:
ami if we sacrifice the higher interests
of liberty and parental authority and
religion for education, we are paying
for it a price far too dear. And it
seems to me that we are in danger of
sacrificing some of these things in the
popular demand for compulsory educa
tion. Are we not in danger in this
matter of adopting the most pernicious
form of paternalism?
The public school, maintained by
taxation, has at its center an element
of socialism in that it takes the prop¬
erty of one man for the benefit of the
children of other men. We may go thus
far in the direction of socialism, per¬
haps. without danger; but when the
State asserts its right to take posses¬
sion of the children of the country, aim
cancel parental authority bycompulsory
education it is going too far. The fam¬
ily is older than the State, and no
benefit of education can offset the in
jury done a child when the State eoer
res the parent in a matter of this kind.
No learning acquired from hooks can
compensate for the injury done a child
when the State sets the parent aside
and assumes towards the child a par¬
ental relation of a superior sort.
Moreover, there is an invasion here
of the liberty of the parent which is
dangerous. Our country cannot afford
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to exchange democracy for bureau¬
cracy ; and yet all our educational pol¬
icy by the State is drifting in that dir¬
ection. This may make a strong State,
but it will make also an enslaved citi¬
zenry. Tin* system has been carried
to its logical consequences in Germany
with what results the world knows too
well. Militarism in Germany rests
on a system of education in which the
State takes control of all the youth of
the country. This is clearly set forth
by Nietzsche. On page 86 of his work
entitled, “The Future of Our Educa¬
j tional Institutions," he says:
“The State assumes the attitude of
; a mystagogue of culture, and, whilst
; it promotes its own ends, it obliges
every one of its servants not to appear
in its presence without the touch of
universal State education in his hands,
j by the flickering light of which lie may
j recognize the State as the highest goal,
' as the reward of all his strivings after
^ education.’"
j Such doctrines as concerning educa¬
| tion naturally supply the basis of the
tyrannical and immoral militarism.
j Tlie State now assumes the right to
select the teachers, and an educational
bureau does this work for the parents
of the country. This same bureau, ox
hoard. selects the text books. Now.
having chosen the teachers and select¬
ed the text books, it is proposed to
force the children of the country to
come into the schools and take under
stress of compulsion whatever is con¬
tained in these books or thought by
these teachers. It would lie possible
under such a system to force children
to learn things which their parents
abhored.
Indeed, just the other day I was
reading in the “Winchester Democrat,”
of Winchester, Ky.. a call for a mass
meeting of the patrons of the Win¬
chester schools to protect against the
use in tlie public schools of certain
hooks which it was said, contained
THE COVINGTON NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 191G.
j teachings in direct contradiction of the
Bilile. Commenting upon this .incident
a leading pajier in Kentucky said:
•'Our public schools in all the states
as far as we know are gradually drift¬
ing away from real Christianity and
the sooner we wake up to this fact the
better for all of us who are interested
in the unadulterated Gospel of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
"We endorse the spirit of the citi¬
zens of Winchester in calling the meet¬
ing to protest against this infidelty.
Let all places do likewise when suc-h
a heresy comes to the surface. If God
he God let us serve him and honor His
Word.”
I do not pretend to pass upon tin*
contents of tlie hooks against which
protest was made at Winchester. Kv.,
for I have not seen them. But this
case shows how under a system of com¬
pulsory education parents might he
forced to have their children study
books that were in direct contradiction
to the Holy Scriptures.
More than once books of history
have been adopted which offended the
sensibilities of our people by .stig¬
matizing the Southern Confederacy
and its leaders. In like manner books
teaching other political doctrines of an
offensive sort might be adopted and
forced upon our children under a com¬
pulsory system of education. In near¬
ly all the schools there is a text book
on civil government, and many of these
textbooks set forth tlie dangerous doc¬
trines of centralization, which we of
tlie South at least, ought not to accept,
and which I doubt.not are unaccepta¬
ble to tlie most thoughtful people of all
sections of our country.
Again, just now there is a proposi¬
tion to put into the public schools a
system of compulsory military train¬
ing. notwithstanding many of the peo¬
ple utterly oppose, as they should op¬
pose. any such injection of militarism
into our common schools. But a board
of education might adopt a system, and
under a plan of compulsory education
force it upon parents whose sentiments
were outraged by such a thing. It will
he nothing less than deplorable to de¬
velop a military sentiment in tli public
schools of tlie country: but already we
are traveling along the same way
which Germany passed in reaching the.
militarism which prevails in that coun¬
try today. This path in Europe has
led to the most dreadful war in the
conflagragation. Let us beware that
we walk not in the same direction, and
to the same horrible result.
We need education and we must have
education; hut we cannot pay this sort
of a price for it. Valuable as it is,
there are some things so sacred that
we cannot exchange them for educa¬
tion even. The authority of the par¬
ents. the filial reverence of the child,the
sanctity of tlie home, tlie freedom of
the citizen, and other high things of a
kindred nature must not be sacrificed
for mere school-book learning. Edu¬
cational hobbyists must not be permit¬
ted to change the very nature of our
government and overwhelm the free¬
dom of the citizen with tlie tyranny of
the State.—The Atlanta Journal.
TAX NOTICE.
The tax books for 3916 will close
on May 1st. Those who have failed
to make their returns will please do
so at once, as the time is getting short.
Adv.) J. F. LUNSFORD,
Tax Receiver Newton Co. Ga.
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The original and genuine Honey and
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Tar Compound and because this has
given such universal satisfaction and
cured so many eases of coughs, colds,
croup and whooping cough, there are
imitations and substitutes offered to
the public. Insist upon Foley’s. For
sale by C. C. Brooks.
NOTICE OF BOM) ELECTION
By order of the Mayor and Council
of the Uown of Newborn there will be
held in said town of Newborn. Newton
county, Georgia, an election on the
8th day of May, 3916, to determine
whether or not the town of Newborn
aforesaid shall issue bonds in tlie
amount of $3,060.00 for the purpose of
erecting an electric light line to said
town. Said bonds to bear interest not
to exceed five per cent per annum, in¬
terest to be paid annually, and said
bonds to mature and he paid at tlie
end of twenty years from the date of
the issuance thereof.
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